Review: A good old fashioned mystery
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 28, 2012
This author took the best of early detective stories genre and skillfully updated it.The mystery unfolds one chapter at a time, getting more complex with each page turn. Where the early books just sprang the solution to the crime, this one builds up to it.His characters are interesting, if a tad unreal.  The women fall all over the protagonist (maybe something Mr. Orcutt would like to happen in his own life? Well, if an author can't fantasize, who can?) , but they all have skills and something to add to the plot.I also liked the set-up for the next novel.  One sentence.