FEATURED AUTHOR - After graduating from Duke University, Glen Dawson owned and operated a flexible packaging manufacturing plant for 23 years. Then, he sold the factory and went back to school to get his Master's degree in biostatistics from Boston University. When he moved to North Carolina, he opened an after-school learning academy for advanced math students in grades 2 through 12. After growing the academy from 30 to 430 students, he sold it to Art of Problem Solving. Since retiring from Art of Problem…
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Three and a half stars.
Goes to show how Dickens actually was good at what he did.
Nowhere near as penetrating or gripping as the Holmes stories, so goes to show why they were the wildly popular ones instead.
Above average, nonetheless.
The author was evidently very highly regarded as a prose stylist, but to this reader it's like eating rocks.
Maybe a professor of English literature could better explicate why Tomlinson's oeuvre should be appreciated.
All along, it seems we will be enjoying a comparatively conventional detective adventure story, but then it ends with a staggering non-conclusion.
Oh, Rohmer.
I like this guy's writing.
A little too heavy on the romance, introspection and second-guessing for my taste, but well worth reading overall.