Review: Detection by Deduction.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 11, 2012
The font and formatting were a strange choice - quite off-putting at first, and all the stranger as the free extract from one of the author's novels (at the end of the story) was in a more normal style, and much easier to read.  And Inspector Zhang's attitude to forensic science, though fully explained in the story, is still very unlikely in a modern police force. A pure deduction crime mystery would perhaps be more authentic if set in a different time, prior to the development of forensic procedures.However, those points aside, this is a quite satisfying 'Locked Room Mystery', and an enjoyable read.