Friday, September 10, 2021

Murder in the Paperback Parlor by Ellery Adams

Rating: WARTY!

"A clever whodunit"? How is it clever when it's the same as all the others: a murder in a bookstore which the proprietor has to solve, because evidently the police are too stupid? "When a famous writer dies at Storyton Hall's Valentine's Day book retreat, proprietor Jane and her book club must race to catch a heartless killer!" Why? The best thing, clearly, is to avoid bookstores like the plague because they're very dangerous places! 'Buy all your books online if you don't want to be murdered' is the take home message here. This is how Amazon is making a killing....