Reviews for Essential mathematics with geometry

The average rating for Essential mathematics with geometry based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-02-08 00:00:00 Chris Edelstein All I can say is if these were Sherlock's 'rivals' then the man had nothing to worry about. Many of these don't even qualify as detective stories. I'll cut it some slack since a) it was published in 1978 and b) I picked it up for $5. Even then you could have found a lot of this in Dover editions. Today most all of it is at Gutenberg. The nicest thing is it reproduces pages from the original magazines which means two-columns of text with original illustrations. Often though the illustrations are too dark to make out any details. From this I picked up that Grant Allen and Arthur Morrison are not very good, LT Meade is okay but unspectacular, and the rest are just there. I'd hoped to capture the atmosphere of the time but none of the tales manage it. Even the non-Sherlock tales by Doyle are uninteresting with 'The Lost Special' containing a resolution that is preposterous if analyzed closely. I'll give it 3 stars for the format and illustrations

Review # 2 was written on 2015-06-15 00:00:00 Scott Zackus I wouldn't necessarily say these stories feature rivals of Sherlock Holmes, as such. They are crime/mystery stories from roughly 1892-1906 or so; Russell asserts that "Most [...] were originally published while Sherlock Holmes was 'dead'" (i.e., 1893-1901). I particularly liked "In the Fog" by Richard Harding Davis (3 stories), Arnold Bennett's "The Loot of Cities" (6 stories), and "The Hammerpond Mystery" by H.G. Wells. My least favorite was the "The Mysteries of Great Cities" series by Baroness E. Orczy (there were 7 of them, and they quickly became predictable), but even that had an interesting premise initially, and the individual stories are quite short.