Review: More Informative Than Fun
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 5, 2013
This "mystery" was a treatise on feminism, even distinguishing between plain feminism and Marxist feminism. The indentation of the "textbook" quotes made the novel seem terribly, terribly long. I frankly didn't mind the refresher course, but I did mind the long, tortuous path to the solution of who was killing the "swans." Everybody became a suspect, including the woman with whom Inspector David McClennan was falling in love. Back and forth, back and forth the investigative team would go, and meanwhile we would see the several students asking themselves questions about one another. There was suspense as the bodies piled up and fears became monumental. The author employed rumor, secret-sharing,and lack of communication as plot-twisting tools. Ms Greaves is a very clever writer, and a clear writer. She also was careful to describe the layout of the campus, the location of rooms, the use of doors, but she doesn't provide much in the way of English atmosphere; to the contrary,the ordinariness of the town was almost depressing. Too depressing to go on for 36 chapters. John Waddington-Feather, for example, also writing about the North and about contemporary problems, stops to smell the roses.The Graveyard Mystery (Blake Hartley Detective Novels)