How Sherlock Holmes and Rope Connect to Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes
The writing of Murder Your Employer: McMasters Guide to Homicide, Volume 1 is masterful. Even for someone like myself who has read and watched all kinds of mysteries over the years, there was a lot of "bait and switch," things hidden in plain sight and passing truths off as lies (and vice versa). The beginning provides the reader with enough description to give them the sense that it's the 1950s, which it later confirms. The type and level of humor is similar to Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, I find. I'll admit, it was hard for me to follow at times because we're not presented with the characters' plans of murder in a linear fashion. It also doesn't help that the author alternates between three characters and not always in the same order. It's just a lot to take in. Photo by Daniela Constantini Summary The book is written as if Dean Harbinger Harrow of the McMasters school is a real person and the true author, Rupert Holmes, is the editor of this v