Review: Good plot yet wordy
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 28, 2013
This book was written in 1917, so it should be accepted as dated writing...maybe. The plot is twisty and not easy to anticipate. It delights the reader with what later seems perfectly acceptable happenings yet is confusing at the time it happens.The author is extremely wordy, e x t r e m e l y. Sixty word sentences are everywhere. And the action slogs along as the characters think, and descriptions describe endlessly the main detective, his age, his ailments, etc. A modern type editor would have made a big difference.I found it very interesting but kept putting it down as it went on and on and on. It is one endless book. It easily could have been a trilogy. :D (Or a model for the book Sacagawea, which if I remember correctly is 1200-1500 pages long.)Still, I enjoyed it and gave it the benefit of the doubt that ages back wrote differently.