I once tried reading one of those 1930s timetable-based mysteries, I think it was Freeman Willis Crofts, and by comparison Five Red Herrings is a masterpiece of characterisation. I just wish the herrings had more variety in the letters their names begin with as I can never remember which one is which.
By the way, GN was also the first one I read and I was so dazed by the gloriousness of Harriet that when the murderer was revealed, I hadn't a clue who she was.
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Date: 2008-06-13 01:42 pm (UTC)By the way, GN was also the first one I read and I was so dazed by the gloriousness of Harriet that when the murderer was revealed, I hadn't a clue who she was.