A classic attempt at a whodunit murder mystery. Unfortunately with emphasis on classic. As in, maybe this story would have worked a long time ago, but today it falls very flat.
Throughout the majority of the book, the main characters, two senior detectives, don't really strike the reader as capable of doing police work, let alone solve a murder case. There is heavy emphasis on their physical fitness, or rather lack thereof. The banter between the two characters is semi-amusing, at best, but annoying at times. In the majority of the book, the two are portrayed as more or less equals, but in the last chapters, one of them (Mr. Murdock) is reduced to a sidekick, if even, having added no real value to the story in the end.
The majority of the book also focuses on going over the clues. The whereabouts of the witnesses, the chain of events, and the evidence is mulled over and over. From every possible angle. Seemingly in an endless loop. When the mystery is finally resolved, the reader realizes that most of this information could have been cut by half.
The ending is, well, unsatisfactory. Had it ended just before the final chapter, it would have been, if not great, at least acceptable. Now the story continues with another twist. The way it was done was very amateurish. Characters, who have just committed capital crimes mind you, behave like the villains from a Disney cartoon. No. The author should probably have spent a bit more time on a plausible ending.
The writing is alright, although the author mixes tenses somewhat arbitrarily. It doesn't detract massively from the story, but one can't help thinking that these inconsistencies would have been caught in an edit.
The most entertaining parts of the book were the conversations between the main character (Mr. Dekker) and his neighbor. The author could have added more of that dialogue, and less of the uninteresting descriptions of how unfit and beat the two detectives were.
Maybe the writing and the stories improve in subsequent books, but I'm afraid I might have to give those a miss.
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