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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Well.. I'm almost 1/2 way through _Caught Stealing_ and I'm about done with it. While it is a bit violent and raw, that's not the problem. This is billed as "Hard Boiled Mysterty" I guess there is just to much Hard and Boiled and not enough mystery for me. Also, I don't really like the choppy dialog and first person and tense.... it just seems to make the story hard to get into.
So, I am going to start reading the MRBC selection, _The Mysterious Affair as Styles_ by Agatha Christie... a Cozy Mystery I think... I hope there is more mystery than Cozy in it.
BOb
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I had the same problem with it as you did - great starting premise (albeit a bit overdone on violence) but read more like a screen play wannabe than a mystery book with any development of plot, character, etc.