Review: Good Old Fashioned Clue Driven Mystery
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 18, 2013
I have enjoyed discovering the Dr. John Thorndyke series via kindle, particularly since all of the series is available at bargain rates.  Unfortunately, many contemporary readers will find the pace too slow for them and the nature of Romance too old-fashioned as well. In Dr. Thorndyke's world, young women suitable for the young men in his sphere of influence are talented, beautiful and virtuous (read that virginal). Love definitely involves courtship and marriage is a binding, exclusive agreement. Thorndyke, too, partakes of the logical, scientific approach, with evidence  being accumulated, placed in context by thorough research, and then, logically presented in minute detail. Rather tedious, I would guess,  to readers of the modus operandi of the modern fictional detectives.If you think you would not be bothered by these vestiges of the early detective era, then, I would say, you might well enjoy the pace, the character development, and the situations which Freeman puts on our plate. The price is suitably low and experiment, therefore, not financially onerous.