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Title: A promising start but it flounders half way through
Review: The first half of the book is very enjoyable, even though there's no mystery until page 150 or so. Then, things start to sag. The characters start to engage in endless dialogs where they repeat themselves for paragraph after paragraph; characters are introduced for no apparent reason (other than a setup for the sequel); and the writing generally just gets sloppy (there were at least three "wry grimaces" on each of the last hundred pages.) And the solution to the mystery itself is obvious by page 20 (actually, it's obvious before you open the book, if you know a little Shakespeare.) I got the feeling the author was in a rush to finish and didn't bother to edit the last half of his first draft.
