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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy
I'm about 1/3 of the way through Murder Past Due ... and not really liking it much. Some reviewers have said they found something "off" about it; my impression so far is that James wrote a book he thought he was "supposed to" in order to attract a specific audience (cat people, Dewey lovers).
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I just finished
Murder Past Due the other day, and I found it a bit odd, too. I was really thrown for a loop by the protagonist being male--I expected a female. I thought that would be the whole point of a male author using a female pseudonym--that he'd be writing from a female POV. And, really, the protagonist could just as well have been female--I don't think anything would need to have been changed but the physical description!
The 18-year-old boy read a lot younger to me--more like 14 or 15.
And the protagonist didn't even solve the mystery! At least the cat did remind me of my own sweet Maine coon-ish kitty.