Rumbustious Dr Gideon Fell has been invited to inspect the material for a book by an early detective novelist. He hardly expects that he will have to investigate a real death at the same time. But an over-amorous woman is found killed in exactly the same way as the victim in the book. So Dr fell leaves his literary pursuits and thunders into action.
This is a locked room murder mystery of which Carr is a fine exponent, except in this story. Set in a small American college town it has too many red herrings that are left hanging and the entire cast of characters are all unlikeable.
Carr's detective, Fell, doesn't make an appearance until half way through the story and adds nothing to the story. To cap it off there is silly last chapter, I have no idea why this was added as the story had been resolved prior.
Reading Carr is worthwhile but I'd leave this one way down the list of his books to read first.
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