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The Diamond Master

by Jacques Futrelle

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Members' Rating: 3.25from 4 Ratings and 1 Review

Tags: Mystery, Novel

ISBN:140694954X

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There were thirty or forty personally addressed letters, the daily heritage of the head of a great business establishment; and a plain, yellow-wrapped package about the size of a cigarette-box, some three inches long, two inches wide and one inch deep. It was neatly tied with thin scarlet twine, ...

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4/5 4.00

Reviewed by jcadiram on Jan 9, 2009

charming 'classic' mystery

I had not heard of this title before subscribing to it on Daily Lit, but decided to give it a go because I had a hankering for a mystery.
Each day that it arrives in my IN box I love it more.
It is a charming piece of period fiction - a light confection that is part Wilkie Collins' 'Moonstone' mixed with the richly drawn characters and pace of Agatha Christie's Miss Maple at her curtain-twitching best. Perhaps some of the enjoyment I find in this book is derived from the instalment delivery too.

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jcadiram 4.00 Read review 2009-01-09
juv3nal 3.00   2008-08-28
Leah87 3.00   2009-06-19
ruffem 3.00   2009-04-09

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