FEATURED AUTHOR - Husband, father, and seeker of truth, Joseph Macolino has a passion for nature, philosophy, and all things fantasy. A true believer in human potential, he dreams of a future human society where people can truly cooperate and voluntarily exchange ideas, goods, and services. When he’s not writing Evorath, he’s likely outside gardening, spending time watching a show with his family, or reading a book on philosophy. Considering himself a lifelong student of humanity, Joseph enjoys meeting new…
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The first two-thirds of this novel are a sort of sordid drawing-room drama, the rest: a mystery with the unlikeliest of detectives and some staggering plot twists.
Not bad, overall.
Stands on its own for pure entertainment, though.
In my opinion, better than Raffles, WAY better.
As for me, about halfway in I re-read Pickwick, just so as to keep up.
Book IV, beginning half-way through volume 2, does perhaps qualify as a bildungsroman if one can start with a twenty-three year-old college grad of independent means. Using the most preposterous pretext, this young man determines to plumb the depths of the very worst of London society prefatory to marrying a whore, his ex-girlfriend. Neither is this the most implausible non-sequitur of the story.
That said, this is entertaining and well-written. Eerily reminiscent (or prefiguring?) Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet in both style and substance.
G.W. Cable is a heckuva storyteller.
Highly highly recommended.
Although this is not the best Bulldog Drummond adventure (that would probably be the affair of the hunchback with the mask on Romney Marsh), neither is it the worst in terms of action.
Sometimes the criminals are just let go at the end, why not? Drummond is only in it for sport; he's not the police. In fact, he goes out of his way not to involve the police, in order that his own fun not be impaired.
Could possibly serve students of creative writing as an example of how not to write a mystery novel.