Murder in the Mist
Murder in the Mist is a Stanley Waters mystery novel written by Willard Scott with Bill Crider. This is my first book of the Stanley Waters series. I never knew such a series existed until I picked this book a few days back at the supermarkert. Murder mysteries always intrigue me.... I started my first mystery series book with Secret Seven, then Famous Five.... All kids start with those books. I have read Hardy Boys too (never liked Nancy Drew much though). And then moved on to Agatha Christie and any other novel that had an air of "kill" or "murder" to it.
One of the special things of this book to note is the use of quotes at the beginning of each part. The quotes give a vague idea of what Stanley Waters is upto in the next few chapters of that part. The author has a nice sense of humor I should say. He quotes two verses from poems and the Bible, but both are contrasting to each other. Let me include two such verses here. Stanley Waters is in for a lot of trouble in this part... The verses go like this.
Fair weather cometh out of the north. - Job 37:22
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive;
but it is lightning that does the work. - Mark Twain.
The first verse makes you think there is going be a lot of revelation, that Stanley Waters is going to discover facts that may help him in his case. The second one surely tells you that discovering facts involves a lot of trouble. Until you read that part of the book, the verses don't make any sense. But once you read on, you will know that it makes perfect sense, because both events happen, even though the verses sound so contrasting initially. Ha... I myself have discovered this fact only now when I am writing this thing! Writing is wonderful; once you let it flow out of you, ideas keep coming to you, ideas that make sense, like what I had discovered just now.
The author leaves a note regarding his use of verses and hopes that whoever reads the book enjoys them. I sure did. All the verses were in reference to weather. You have to read the whole book to make sense of those verses and the use of them really impressed me. The book is also very fast-paced, the kindof book that is hard to put down. I finished it in one stretch of less than four and a half hours.
One of the special things of this book to note is the use of quotes at the beginning of each part. The quotes give a vague idea of what Stanley Waters is upto in the next few chapters of that part. The author has a nice sense of humor I should say. He quotes two verses from poems and the Bible, but both are contrasting to each other. Let me include two such verses here. Stanley Waters is in for a lot of trouble in this part... The verses go like this.
Fair weather cometh out of the north. - Job 37:22
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive;
but it is lightning that does the work. - Mark Twain.
The first verse makes you think there is going be a lot of revelation, that Stanley Waters is going to discover facts that may help him in his case. The second one surely tells you that discovering facts involves a lot of trouble. Until you read that part of the book, the verses don't make any sense. But once you read on, you will know that it makes perfect sense, because both events happen, even though the verses sound so contrasting initially. Ha... I myself have discovered this fact only now when I am writing this thing! Writing is wonderful; once you let it flow out of you, ideas keep coming to you, ideas that make sense, like what I had discovered just now.
The author leaves a note regarding his use of verses and hopes that whoever reads the book enjoys them. I sure did. All the verses were in reference to weather. You have to read the whole book to make sense of those verses and the use of them really impressed me. The book is also very fast-paced, the kindof book that is hard to put down. I finished it in one stretch of less than four and a half hours.
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