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Title: a fine scholarly all-points review of solutions and hints
Review: I'd say other reviewers are too negative--it's true the insights of the Great Detectives and their supposed convention setting in Romeare too jokey and not even specially brilliant pastiche: what is Nero Wolfe doing walking round everywhere without Archie?--But as an easy way to learn the whole range of possibilities for solutions without looking at a whole library on the subject this isa treasure! I still think it's a Howdunnit with Jarsper as the villain but the sinister side of the Landlesses and especially the fact thatJarsper has another place he visits in London beside Princess Puffer's and the heavy emphasis on Mrs Crisparkle's jam box and herbcabinet...things I'll think about a lot after this and that I mightn't have gotten straight from a purely scholarly treatment.A classic.
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