![]() Amazingly he arrives from Argentina complete with perfect, idiomatic English and never falters in his understanding of what is said to him. The young student narrates the story, but doesn't even manage to collect a name. ![]() That might sound rather dry and dull, but it's not - it's surprisingly entertaining - but it doesn't leave a lot of room for more than most cursory of character-building. There are 197 pages of text and much of it is concerned with mathematical rules and axioms. Let's get the bad bits out of the way first so that we can enjoy the good bits.Ĭharacterisation is thin, at best. It's only a matter of days before there's another death. His most famous work of philosophy includes a chapter on serial killers and it seems that this killer is taunting him. Seldom has been brought to the house by a note bearing a mathematical symbol and the words "the first of the series". As he discovers the body he meets Arthur Seldom, Professor of Logic at the University. ![]() Once you know the name of the murderer, you know the name of the murderer!Ī young graduate student arrives from Argentina to study mathematics in Oxford and he's barely got to know his landlady before he arrives home one day to find that she's been murdered. ![]() ![]() Summary: An excellent plot but weak characterisation and some howling mistakes mean that this might be a book to borrow from the library rather than buy. ![]()
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