![]() ![]() ![]() Still suffers from the "LOOK! HERE'S THE IMPORTANT CLUE!" syndrome I mentioned in a previous review. The reference back to a previous story is pretty neat - it added a lot to the story that wouldn't have been there otherwise. If the reader uses the Internet to look up something that the writer draws attention to in a rather obvious way, it's fairly easy to break the killer's alibi. ![]() 6/10ġ3) The Gentleman Thief: Not too bad, after the last two, although there's a MAJOR error in the "impossible murder" execution that the author didn't realize, and never addressed, which punctures things a bit.Ģ0) The Undying Butterflies: Not a bad story. Plus, it gets a point for the Columbo reference. 6.5/10ġ2) House of Wax: Why couldn't TokyoPop put the crime scene map somewhere other than right in the middle (or was it near the end) of the volume, WITHOUT page numbers? It led me to look at something I shouldn't have! Even then, though, both major clues and "locked room" weren't that well executed, though the solution to the latter wasn't bad at all. No spoilers here, which tells you a bit about my regard for this one. The "locked room" was disappointing, and the atmosphere never really got that charged, although the unusual point of view that they used for a good deal of this tale was interesting. I suppose the key clue was KINDA fair, though I didn't like that you had to basically squint to figure it out. ![]()
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