Reviews

Murder Gone Minoan by Clyde B. Clason

bev_reads_mysteries's review

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

 This was an interesting entry in the Westborough series. It has a very epistolary set-up--beginning with letter exchanges and with intermissions for transcripts of the written statements from the various witnesses each time there's a murder. Clason drops clues in the documents and in conversations so adroitly that I definitely did not spot the important ones which would have told me what the letters Westborough sent (which we didn't get to see...) contained. I also would have known who did it. But Clason kept that secret till the very end...at least from me. Another pleasant puzzler featuring an academic. I can't resist those. 

ssejig's review

3.0

Theocritus Lucius Westborough is back. This time he's been asked to come out and solve the mystery of a missing statue. A Greek millionaire has his own island and the statue has disappeared. There are almost a dozen people on the island who could be the thief including the man's wife (who doesn't love him) and her son, the man's daughter, a business associate and his son (a possible love interest for the daughter), a scholar, and an artist. All of the young men are at least half in love with the daughter but she seems to be interested most in the (poor) artist.
Theocritus is worried. The atmosphere of the island is not what it should be. Then the butler (who vanished right after the theft) turns up on a trip out now a glass-bottomed boat. And more dead bodies start to follow...