Book Review of The Murder Wheel

Is there such a thing as the perfect crime? There might be when nothing makes sense and the details get more muddy as one digs deeper. Such it is in this second book of a “locked-room” mystery. It seems impossible, but had to be. Spectre and Flint are once again faced with crimes that seem to have occurred simply by magic.

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Easy mysteries to solve are boring. That being said, this book is far from boring. It is a mystery that will have you stumped. Husband and wife go up to the top of a Ferris wheel. He comes down shot, but she swears she didn’t do it. Reports lead one to think there was a shooter on the ground, but how did a bullet bend in flight to kill the husband. A lawyer questions this but finds more death and even suspicion on himself. It’s as though the mystery has a life of its own.

The plot is amazing though too often I got very confused. That seems to be the intent of the author as this is not a simple mystery. He was successful. The author was very helpful in adding diagrams and references to help the reader “see” the solutions and to confirm what he lays out to the world. This is one plot I could see as a movie.