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A review by weaselweader
Famous Trials by James H. Hodge, John Mortimer, Harry Hodge
1.0
Dry as dust and almost as entertaining!
Interesting summaries of the investigation and trials of a number of both well known and lesser known murderers from the early to mid-20th century. But sadly, the writing suffers from a clinical, pedantic style that is simply dreary in the extreme. There was nothing about these summaries that any reader might classify as gripping or compelling. I was, quite frankly, very disappointed that an author of John Mortimer's skill and celebrity would put together an anthology with such a low readability factor.
Paul Weiss
Interesting summaries of the investigation and trials of a number of both well known and lesser known murderers from the early to mid-20th century. But sadly, the writing suffers from a clinical, pedantic style that is simply dreary in the extreme. There was nothing about these summaries that any reader might classify as gripping or compelling. I was, quite frankly, very disappointed that an author of John Mortimer's skill and celebrity would put together an anthology with such a low readability factor.
Paul Weiss