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Title: Great book, not a great mystery.
Review: Okay, first I'll point out that anyone who regularly reads mystery novels will identify the murderer early on (at least I did). However, Asimov is not a mystery writer, he is an SF writer. As an exploration of a world of the future, this is absolutely top-notch. Furthermore, the way in which Bailey discovers who is the murderer is well done -- after all, Bailey doesn't know he's in a murder-mystery book plot, so he can't identify the murderer the way we can.
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