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Title: Hard Case Crime's weakest reprint yet
Review: While it's understandable that Hard Case Crime would eventually want to reprint a Hamilton novel due to his great successes in and out of the mystery field, Night Walker is just not up to par with previous titles in the publisher's catalogue.The story is slow, full of tremendous leaps in logic, and has areas of such lengthy exposition that the book grinds to a total standstill several times. The villain's explanation at the end of the novel, tying up every loose end of the plot, goes on page after page after page. The book also features a southern belle who starts nearly every bit of her dialogue with "Well, I declare!" Think I'm kidding? Count it up yourself, I bet she's got at least 100 "I declares!" in there. That's not characterization, it's just sloppy writing.
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