Reviews for Hair of the sleuthhound

The average rating for Hair of the sleuthhound based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-07-05 00:00:00 Joe Zyhowski Jacques Futrelle has presented 13 cases in this book, all with a master detective called "the Thinking Machine," AKA Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen. Now if you are thinking he would be slightly unpleasant, similar in behavior as Sherlock Holmes, or eccentric, like Hercule Poirot, you would be wrong on both accounts. This supposedly well-known scientist is majorly unpleasant and a whole lot eccentric. But my major gripe with the tales are that author Futrelle never quite explains how the amateur detective comes up with his solution and they are usually pretty esoteric. Don't even try to solve these cases ' because it isn't going to happen ' except in the case of the final story, which is really a thriller. And in that case, Van Dusen comes up with a clever answer, but not the real one. I'm glad that I read the book and would like to perhaps try a novel by Futrelle, but I can't say that I actually enjoyed these clever stories ' because they are clever, its just getting to the solution that made the frankly, a drag.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-03-10 00:00:00 Eugene Buggs read some time in 1991