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2.0
This was a frustrating whodunit. Having spent years with the wisdom of Sherlock Holmes and the grey cells of Poirot, the "who dun it" appeared so obvious to me right from the word go. As the book went on, Hilton appeared to be throwing one huge evidence after another to point to the actual culprit but our hero seems to go in all directions but the right one. Maybe that was Hilton's purpose- to show how dumb amateur detectives could be.
The setting was good - obviously, Hilton has a partiality for old-world British schools. But the characters were not well fleshed out which meant that unlike his books of "drama" like "Random harvest" and "Goodbye Mr Chips", no character seemed to come to life. They remained caricatures within the book and forgotten once the book was finished.
The setting was good - obviously, Hilton has a partiality for old-world British schools. But the characters were not well fleshed out which meant that unlike his books of "drama" like "Random harvest" and "Goodbye Mr Chips", no character seemed to come to life. They remained caricatures within the book and forgotten once the book was finished.
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