A review by ferna
El martillo azul by Ross Macdonald

4.0

Thrilling fast-paced story. It is almost everything you'd want in a mystery novel. Just 2 things bothered me: There's no much presentation of the detective narrator at the beginning of the story. It may be on purpose, and I don't even know if this character has other stories, but as a reader, I need to know more about the narrator-character and I just got to almost half the story, and it is not much. Secondly, I thought I was following the detective's thought until the end, when more information kept coming to the surface and I thought I needed to make a thinking map. It bothered me the most, that the last piece of information was revealed in the last page! Maybe it is good technique, but I just thought it was too much, after a havey story wih a lot of information to process, to finish it like that.