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Originally Posted by moonshot
The error of a 'dog in two places' is not justification for a badly written book.
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It's very badly written. The entire mystery hinged on the dog "sniffing" out the culprit--and the dog was in the room with said evidence at one point in the book--and also supposedly in another room at the very same time. The double placement of the dog alone made the event entirely too noticeable. Then you get to the end of the book and the dog is "smelling" the evidence through a car door, no less--supposedly for the first time.
There were other sloppy issues with the book as well, but in this case the entire mystery went down the drain. So if someone is going to police the quality of the word "author" or publishing, I guess we need a way to scarlet letter those that don't make the grade that happen to be trad published.
Or, if you believe self-publishing is the problem, just don't buy self-published books. They are fairly easy to identify. There's really no huge need for Amazon to mark them for you and since they are making quite a bit of money from self-published books, they have no incentive to put them in a special category.