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I finished John Dickson Carr's The Hollow Man last night, said to be the greatest ever locked-room mystery. It was fairly satisfying. I'm not 100% convinced that one part of it could have worked, but maybe I'm wrong.
I wasn't too fond of the writing style. The characters didn't seem to speak like real people. There was none of the easy flow of Agatha Christie. It was pretty much all about the puzzle. Carr was producing four books a year at that time, though, so maybe it's not too surprising. I'm not sure I'll be pursuing Carr's work much further. I have one other Gideon Fell mystery, actually an earlier one in the series, but I thought I might as well go for the more famous book.
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