Review: Too many words; too little storyline
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 27, 2011
Inspector Zhang is a Hercule Poirot wannabe.  His life's dream is to come upon a true locked-room mystery that can be solved only by using his 'little grey cells'.  Finally he gets his wish!The premise is a good one for a short story, but the Inspector spends too much time lecturing a captive audience about the literary principles of a locked-room mystery and not enough time finding data for the little grey cells to work with.  The writing is well-done, though, and the clues are right there in your face, but you still don't see them coming...Fans of the short story would probably enjoy this, so long as they don't mind being lectured at by a character.Note on Kindle formatting:  Only OK.  The font shows on the Kindle as 'plain text' (Courier) which is a bit disconcerting and makes the story look as though it is just a rough draft.  There are, however, no actual formatting errors, and once you get used to the font, it's perfectly readable.