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Atmospheric, highly literary ... Revives the lost art of the epistolary novel ... The mystery plots allow the author to ask deeper, more elusive questions about human existence ... Both entertaining and instructive.
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A brisk and breezy English translation ... Binet does an excellent job of cycling through the various letter-writers without ever allowing the reader to get lost. But his most brilliant feat is incorporating historical facts and attributes into the framework of his mystery.
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Seriously enjoyable ... The epistolary novel can be a stodgy form, but in Sam Taylor’s translation from the French the letter writers here are brightly charismatic ... From this delectable book’s clamor of voices and versions, Mr. Binet arrives at the truth of the crime.
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