This was a good book, though in my review for MiWSR I'm definitely going to take the authors to task for cramming the first 46 years of Ross's life into 39 pages, then spending the remaining 180 pages of text on the last five months of his life and his legacy. It's especially frustrating when the authors keep referencing Ross's lessons from campaigns that they just gloss over.
This was a confusing little mystery.
As the title of the book says, an airman dies in a plane crash. At first everyone thinks it has been an accident, then everyone thinks it has been murder and then everyone thinks it has been a suicide. Essentially, no one knows what has happened.
And until the death of said airman gets untangled, another mystery surrounding the airfield at which the death has occured has to be solved.
Yep, I was confused a lot of the time. And yet I really liked this mystery and it kept me glued to the pages. And the ending was adorable.
The policemen seem to be rather clueless ... and so am I.
Has it been murder? Has it been suicide? Has it been an accident? Who knows? The only thing I know is that I don´t trust the Bishop one bit. And I wonder how this story is going to end.
This may not have been the best time for me to try to read this book because I just wasn't taken in by the mystery and the banter. It wasn't all that long but it felt like it took forever to read. I kind of liked the Bishop, but we didn't spend all that much time with him and the mystery itself reminded me a bit of bad Agatha Christie. Italicizing the word "rigor" when you keep using it more than five times in a single paragraph also got annoying really fast.
The convenient solution for the culprit to
commit suicide
dropped the book even further in my estimation and the
marriage proposal
that came out of the blue was just arsenic icing on the strychnine cake.
I do get to count it for square 10 of 16 Festive Tasks, Pancha Ganapati: read a book whose cover has one of the 5 colors of the holiday: red, blue, green, orange, or yellow (four out of five isn't bad).
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