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Boy Scouts in an Airship or, the Warning from the Sky (World Cultural Heritage Library)

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I should have answered my question with a qualified, "yes, of course", for about three-quarters of the book, as one and then another narrator described the action from his own viewpoint. Somewhat stilted in language for a contemporary reader (Freeman-1862-1943) but nothing that would interfere with one's enjoyment.A puzzling mystery was set out, the Legal Forensics Specialist (as he would be called in today's book of similar type) called in to resolve certain aspects of the crime, he questioned, poked around, collected evidence with his trusty helpmates, analyzed in his laboratory, spoke scientific to his associate, and cogitated. Then he began to unveil his solution, at considerable length and in considerable detail. That is the point at which I decided to leave the question mark in the title of the review. For some readers, I know, the detailed analysis will be chocolate ice cream with marshmallow and whipped cream on top. Others will have their eyes glaze over. I fell more into the latter than the former category; however, I could not understand how the elaborate unraveling of symbolism in the DaVinci Code could hold readers, who, like I, surely wanted the author to get ahead with his story and stop all that jabbering. For some reason, nevertheless, for a sufficient numbers of readers to make the author a millionaire, I don't know how many times over, all that jabbering was fascinating.

Go figure.

At any rate, despite my misgivings, I can give it qualified approval, it is a well conceived, and mostly well-written story, for some it will be first rate, for others it will be an eye-closer. Since it is available as an ebook online free of charge, with kindle downloading Freeman books (I did not check whether it has this one) for a buck a batch (and similar devices probably doing something about the same), I would urge the average reader, for whom the price of this edition gives pause (as it did me save for a bargain rate,) to take the appropriate alternative way to start with an author, who, if he pleases you, is available inexpensively in increasing numbers of books.