Review: For Fans of Victorian Writing
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 6, 2013
These stories are detailed and highly descriptive, which was the writing style of the late 1800's through the 1930's. The last story is abut 12 hours long in reading. If you want detective/mystery stories that move fast and have a lot of action, these collections are not for you. I enjoy them and am not in a hurry to get through one. So, if you like Anna Katharine Green, G. K. Chesterton, and Wilkie Collins (the three authors I recognized from the list when I bought this) then you will like these stories. Lots of atmosphere, character development, and devious convoluted (at times) story lines that I enjoyed. I read this volume 3 collection first and am now starting the first volume collection next. Don't know why, probably the order I found it when I browsed through my Kindle. Kindle shows the time left for each chapter; but, when you get the the final story, every chapter from 5 on were merged into one chapter for "Go To" as well as the "time left in chapter" info. There must be 50 chapters in the last story, so the indexing had not been completed. Maybe it has been since I bought this nearly 8 months ago.