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Title: One red herring is often a waste of time, so five are...?
Review: This is the type of mystery that brings out the parodists. Any Monty Python fan can tell you that one of their great sketches deals with a murder mystery that was entirely based on train schedules. I remember thinking when I saw that,"How silly." Well, that's a whole section of this mystery,an actual train time schedule makes an appearance as a way proving whether or not one of the suspects could have committed the crime in question. The death of an artist brings about a variety of possible of solutions and killers each with ridiculous alibis and page after page is spent disproving them only finding another dead end. I slogged through this one reaching the inevitable unsatisfactory solution which is in itself a cheat and just nodded my head ruefully.
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