Rating: 2/5
Review:
Stale, flat and unprofitable
The Studio Crime has been described as an influential Golden Age
classic, but I’m afraid I found it improbable, ponderous and dull.
The characters are pretty stereotypical, the dialogue is rather
forced, the pace is funereal, the plot is predictable and I spotted
the killer early on, just from the way they were presented rather
than from any clues. I ended up skimming several sections and didn’t
feel I’d missed much.
Others have plainly enjoyed this far more than I did, but although I enjoy a lot of Golden Age detective fiction it really wasn’t for me.
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