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A review by nlord
The Horror on the Links by Seabury Quinn
Did not finish book. Stopped at 27%.
I feel, even for the time there were better contemporary characters with much better writing (Manly Wade Wellman comes to mind for example).
Every story is like a whodunit-speedrun, with mystery established, Jules de Grandin going somewhere, then returning to give a long-winded explanation to his friend & us of how did he solved the mystery (usually, in a very boring, straight-forward kinda manner).
Second-to-last story I've listened to was about "strange N@groes", who turned out to be "vengeful Hindu", so unreasonably upset by a perfectly civilized massacre of the resistance by the British Company and hypnotizing seeming random British tourists to death.. the last story I've read was solved by the detective asking the police to check for fingerprints on the weapon, left literally at the crime scene - I get that it was, like, 1930s, but still.
Every story is like a whodunit-speedrun, with mystery established, Jules de Grandin going somewhere, then returning to give a long-winded explanation to his friend & us of how did he solved the mystery (usually, in a very boring, straight-forward kinda manner).
Second-to-last story I've listened to was about "strange N@groes", who turned out to be "vengeful Hindu", so unreasonably upset by a perfectly civilized massacre of the resistance by the British Company and hypnotizing seeming random British tourists to death.. the last story I've read was solved by the detective asking the police to check for fingerprints on the weapon, left literally at the crime scene - I get that it was, like, 1930s, but still.