Ellery Queen

The Roman Hat Mystery

Kirsten Simkiss

A masterpiece this is not. While I think it did the atmosphere of the setting justice and I found it interesting to see how differently cops were portrayed back then, the story just wasn’t as interesting as I would have liked it to be. It took a long time getting to the point, making you slog through unimportant bits to get to the good stuff. All in all, not a bad mystery but I wouldn’t recommend it to others.

Mariana Miralles

I really enjoyed the book, but i couldn't appreciate very much the fair play deduction experience that it offers because i couldn't read it all at once because of time issues. So, any time that i came back to the reading i was a bit lost in the flow of events. Also I think the Kindle Edition is a bit uncomfortable because you can't go back as quickly as in a paper edition, to the start to read the names and description of the characters and also to look the map, that in this version it is too small so you can't see some details.
Anyways, i still could make my own deductions, not very precise but deductions anyways that took me in a way to the same result as the characters more or less.

The Roman Hat Mystery

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