Review: Bold print throughout is annoying
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 6, 2012
REVISED 01-13-14:  The stories are very entertaining and well-written (by an author who tragically went down with the Titanic). Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen is the hero whose analytical methods to crime solving earn him the title of "The Thinking Machine." These tales are imitative of those by Conan Doyle starring Sherlock Holmes, and while they are not quite as good, they are nevertheless entertaining in their own right. The $.99 price is terrific and the formatting is ideal EXCEPT for one VERY annoying thing: the text is entirely in bold print. It takes a little getting used to when reading because it feels as if the author is shouting at you. If you can get used to this, it is quite fine. (But why hasn't the publisher fixed this programming error?) Nevertheless, to me, this is a deal-breaker.Fortunately there is another Futrelle ebook collection which has recently become available in the Kindle Store for the same low price as this but containing 50 stories. Published by Books Revival Press, its title is "Professor Van Dusen M.D.: The Thinking Machine." Because it has more stories and an attractive (and normal) font, THAT is the version I would presently recommend.