FEATURED AUTHOR - Miranda started out life wanting to be a film director, but when directing people didn't work, she turned to words instead, finding them much easier to deal with – most days. Miranda has been featured in several Flash Fiction anthologies and ezines, and published several books, including three collections, four novels, and a novella. She writes across genres, which include Horror, Science Fiction Fantasy, Time Travel and Paranormal Fantasy, often mixing them together – the one constant being…
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There hardly is mystery in it and several of the story lines are rather old-fashioned to our modern minds.
So: not recommended to mystery lovers, but probably a must to Anna Katherine Green fans.
In these first parts of the Forsyte books the story is still very good. It becomes a bit less in the later books.
Is there anything more to be said? No. This is a must-read for everybody with a sense of literature.
It has all the ingredients of a good detective novel: Unexpected turns in the plot, putting you (and the detective, by the way) on the wrong leg and an unexpected ending, although "experienced" readers of the genre might not find it too unexpected. But remember that it is more than 100 years old and still a good read.
In the last few pages the secrets of the plot in "Monsieur Lecoq" are revealed. The rest is history, but necessary to understand things.
The bad news is, that you have to read the sequel "The Honor of the Name" to understand who did it and why!
Gaboriau can be regarded as the father of the modern detective novel, so you should read this anyway, if only for that reason, if you are interested in the genre.