Mystery in White is okay. Slow going in places. A mixture of irritating and bland characters. Standard old-timey mystery and suspense fare that doesn't hold up well in the modern age.Lots of wasted dialogue and banal filler that could've been cut to make the book leaner.Not a bad story, but the pay off isn't worth slogging through the whole thing. And I imagine many readers will struggle to motivate themselves enough to finish. An oddball group of passengers get snowbound on a train on Christmas eve. In a hurry to get somewhere, they leave the train. They end up snowbound in a deserted country manor that just happens to have plenty of supplies, even a boiling kettle.The problem is, I really didn't like a single one of the characters. The conversations were annoying and banal. By the time there's a murder victim, I didn't much care. The resolution wasn't convincing.All in all readable, but disappointing.
What do You think about Mystery In White (1937)?
Good old fashioned Christmas mystery. One of The British Library's Crime Classics Series.
—Hollyrachelle
enjoyable and a good pace throughout the book
—eli
