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Title: why is this even translated?
Review: Ariadne publishes many important books by authors both great and deserving of far wider attention in the English-speaking world, but Gerald Szyszkowitz is definitely not one of them. "Murder at the Western Wall" has all the fatal flaws of a manuscript that should have been rejected by a publisher instantly, after only a few pages of torturous reading. Its characters are one-dimensional, its dialogues are wooden, its writing is amateurish, and the transition from scene to scene, action to action--or even from sentence to sentence--is so poorly handled it sometimes defies logic. Nice cover, though (at least by the no-frills standard of Ariadne).
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