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justasking27's review against another edition
4.0
An enjoyable mystery with lots of red herring clues and a somewhat annoying narrator, though it's for understandable reasons. As other reviewers mention, the solution to the mystery is fairly obvious but I still enjoyed the story and unraveling.
alexauthorshay's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 stars
A nice change of pace with a new narrator who wasn't directly following the events of the case. With Jervis going around with Thorndyke, you know a little more as the case progresses, so it was nice to have a character involved with all the suspects and witnessing things that incriminated them all but was unable to follow the progress Thorndyke was making. I noticed more starkly this time too, in the summary Thorndyke gives at the end to say how he arrived at his conclusion, that little things he picked up on get mentioned in the book by one or two word descriptions, and going back you can pick up on the clues here and there and would probably be better able to guess who the real culprit is if you paid more attention to those little hints. But since it is a novel, there are certain things Freeman can't put in or the mystery wouldn't be a mystery, but having a narrator less directly involved with the investigation prevents that aspect from being prominent enough to be annoying.
A nice change of pace with a new narrator who wasn't directly following the events of the case. With Jervis going around with Thorndyke, you know a little more as the case progresses, so it was nice to have a character involved with all the suspects and witnessing things that incriminated them all but was unable to follow the progress Thorndyke was making. I noticed more starkly this time too, in the summary Thorndyke gives at the end to say how he arrived at his conclusion, that little things he picked up on get mentioned in the book by one or two word descriptions, and going back you can pick up on the clues here and there and would probably be better able to guess who the real culprit is if you paid more attention to those little hints. But since it is a novel, there are certain things Freeman can't put in or the mystery wouldn't be a mystery, but having a narrator less directly involved with the investigation prevents that aspect from being prominent enough to be annoying.
vesper1931's review against another edition
4.0
The Reverend Amos Monkhouse is concerned about his very ill brother Harold. When he dies an inquest is held - it seems he was poisoned. But by whom and how.
Story told from the P.O.V. of lawyer Rupert Mayfield.
An enjoyable mystery
Originally written in 1928
Story told from the P.O.V. of lawyer Rupert Mayfield.
An enjoyable mystery
Originally written in 1928
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