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Title: Boring and absurd mixture of mediocre mystery and soap opera
Review: Most of the book is excruciatingly boring. What the "detective" has is nothing but speculations, which we are told he "intuitively knows" (only in third-rate detective stories that serves as usable trial evidence). Then comes the super-melodramatic conclusion, which belongs in Peyton Place (or in any inferior soap opera). The criminals then can't wait to confess everything. The whole thing is an insult to the reader's intelligence.
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