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Crime Of The Century
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The Daily Telegraph asked Kingsley Amis to write a mystery serial, and according to him, he took the job to pay his bills. The title lets you know it was an ironic task for him, and he says that, like all writing, it proved difficult as well. Amis writes well, but this is a not really a mystery but rather a book written to resemble a mystery with clues and some character development and a ridiculously unsatisfying resolution. The fact that the newspaper ran a contest where the author could choose the best alternate ending by a reader shows how randomly plotted and developed this story is! Any character could have committed the murder and the one that did is a silly choice. I was greatly disappointed in this book.
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