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Originally Posted by JSWolf
There was no chance to get into the mystery and try to figure things out as the story progressed.
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So it's like many of the Sherlock Holmes stories then?
After some of your comments in prior to this thread going live I expected that this would end up more like the Sherlock Holmes stories which were more along the lines of character studies of Holmes (and Watson) than true mysteries. I wasn't disappointed in that.
For this story, I wasn't interested in the sections about her father, they didn't add much I thought, and I thought that the major mystery of the missing boy was very weakly done. Yes, she found the boy and returned him to his father, but her sleuthing turned out to be pure luck since the witch doctor who had kidnapped him hadn't actually done anything to him (in that way).
Other than those items, I quite enjoyed this as a whole. Yes, the mystery wasn't strong but the writing was excellent and I enjoyed Mme Ramotswe.