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Anna Katherine Green haas been highly praised as "the mother of the detective novel". She was a best-seller in her day and her female sleuth, Amelia Butterworth, became a progenitor of other later female detectives such as Miss Marple.
"Dr Izard", however, must be one of her poorer efforts. It isn't a detective story but rather a clumsily plotted Victorian pulp melodrama with cardboard characters. The hero is completely one-dimensional and the Doctor is a pallid Byronic creation. One would expect ...more
"Dr Izard", however, must be one of her poorer efforts. It isn't a detective story but rather a clumsily plotted Victorian pulp melodrama with cardboard characters. The hero is completely one-dimensional and the Doctor is a pallid Byronic creation. One would expect ...more
Well, that was just silly. And stupid. I like turn-of-the-last-century novels, but this one was dreadful, poorly written and ridiculously plotted, without redeeming characterizations or narrative flow.
Oct 11, 2013
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