The Tell-Tale Horse: A Novel by Rita Mae Brown
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Book Summary Author: Rita Mae Brown Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2008-09-30 ISBN: 034550626X Number of pages: 320 Publisher: Ballantine Books |
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Book Reviews of the The Tell-Tale Horse: A Novel
Customer Review: Not much to it
Summary: 2 Stars
Many writers use the mystery genre to write about something else. This writer has produced a slap-dash murder mystery set among the fox hunting set in Virginia. People who are fanatic about something are a self-absorbed lot about it and these foxhunters are no exception and the writer pads the book with fairly repetitive details of a number of hunts that occur. An interesting, but rather precious device (in this book at least), is that the animals can converse with each other. Other than some thin humor, however, the writer does nothing particularly interesting with this device. It might have been interesting to have a little of the fox's perspective on being chased by dogs and horses. I cannot imagine it ever being pleasant, but in this book the implication seems to be that the jelly beans and peanut butter and such put out to feed them is a fair trade-off. Hmm.
Oh that's right, the murder mystery. Never a good sign when one becomes bored with reading the details and skips ahead to see if anything of significance will ever happen. In real life there are chance discoveries and blurted confessions, but to use such in a mystery novel is a great disappointment. A good mystery unfolds before the reader and is written so that little things one easily might pass over are later shown to have great significance. That's why Presumed Innocent was such a good mystery and this book is not.