Reviews for The Shrieking Pit

The average rating for The Shrieking Pit based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-07-15 00:00:00 Louise C Bergevin Should have been edited down to less than one third of its length - entire chapters might easily have been deleted. Even so, it's a very simplistic murder mystery. Has some humor: "Mr. Crommering would sooner have been the editor of The English Review than the chief constable of Norfolk. His tastes were bookish. Nature had intended him for the librarian of a circulating library, safe pilot of middle class ladies through the ocean of new fiction which overwhelmed the British Isles twice a year." The Librivox reader Kevin Green is excellent - a delight for the non-native speaker.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-04-26 00:00:00 Adam Martinez Sherlock Holmes get out of town because Grant Colwyn is here to stay! In The Shrieking Pit the reader is introduced to the renowned American detective Grant Colwyn. The story begins when this internationally famous detective is dining in a hotel restaurant and is made aware of the strange behavior of a fellow guest. This strange behavior is brought to his attention by another guest, Sir Henry Durwood (a well known doctor and amateur paleontologist). His diagnosis is that the young man is suffering from a rare form of epilepsy and may soon present a danger to other hotel guests. The two men restrain the man and take him to his room. The following day the young man left the hotel early before anyone was up. The next day, in another neighboring town a murder is committed and this same man is the main (only) suspect. Although all the circumstantial evidence points to him as the murderer, Grant Colwyn believes in his innocence and sets out to prove it. Grant Colwyn goes about his work in a clear and precise manner without making the reader feel inferior with his "obvious deductions" and I find that he is warmer and infinitely more likeable that the famous Sherlock Holmes. This could have to do with his Yankee background but I think many readers will enjoy this old murder spoof.