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An Annoying Real Life Mystery,
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This review is from: The Slaying Of Joseph Bowne Elwell (Hardcover)
Joseph Elwell was a famous and successful whist player and author in the first part of the 20th Century. Something of a gambler and womanizer, he is chiefly remembered for being murdered in a real life "locked room" mystery. The murder happened in 1920 and was never solved.
The author, Jonathan Goodman, has provided a summary of Elwell's life and death and reprinted lots of material from newspapers of the day about the murder. In the final chapters, he reveals whom he believed was the murderer and why. Unfortunately, by the time you get to these last chapters, you no longer care. The author has an especially annoying writing style where he spends a lot of time sneering at the people (reporters, police, assistant attorney generals, friends, relatives, employees, etc.) involved in the actual murder case. In his "dramatic" resolution of the case, he suddenly reveals critical information that was never given to the reader before, which seems very unfair to the reader. Spare yourself and try another, any other, murder mystery rather than reading this one. |
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The slaying of Joseph Bowne Elwell by Jonathan Goodman (Hardcover - 1987)
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