Lead, So I Can Follow

Carl Wilcox #16

by Harold Adams

Carl Wilcox joins forces with his new wife Hazel to investigate a bizarre mystery after they stumble upon a corpse on the bluff overlooking their favorite fishing spot, in an entertaining mystery set in the Depression-era northern plains.

Genres: Mystery

224 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1999

About the author

BORN 1923

Reviews

[Jan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Didn't enjoy this one as much as #13. Seemed to have more repetitive circles. AND...Carl got married! After his free-love ways.... Maybe the characters weren't as interesting in this one; they all seemed so self-centered.

[John Stanley · Rating 2 out of 5]

Dull!

[Sandra · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was okay. Most of the time was spent canoeing up and down the river while interviewing the same people over and over again.

[William Wehrmacher · Rating 5 out of 5]

I picked up this book because I just finished No Badge, No Gun. Again, I loved the two protagonists, and the story line was very good.

I was struck by the similarity in story structure to that made so clear in Murder on the Orient Express which I completed only a week or so earlier. It is a formula where information is gathered, hypothesis formed, the faulty discarded,and the remaining is assumed as correct, as is so often what Sherlock Holmes offered as the way to a conclusion. There is a reason, I tell my wife regularly, that people use formulas, it is because they work.

Next on my list is the first of this series, although I have to admit in advance I will miss Hazel, the crime solving librarian.

[Katie Boggs]

HATED IT!!! So boring, and for some reason the author chose to set it in the 1930s but made absolutely no attempt to conform his characters to era-appropriate expectations and conventions. It was definitely not worth reading!

[smalls · Rating 3 out of 5]

this started out as a good story, but it was anticlimatic for me. Quick read.

[Lisa]

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[Cathy Houston · Rating 2 out of 5]

the author floundered for a plot despite 2 murders; and basically gave up on an ending; very unsatisfactory

[Chi Dubinski · Rating 4 out of 5]

Carl Wilcox and his bride, Hazel, are on their honeymoon camping near the St. Croix River between Minnesota and Wisconsin. The Great Depression is nearing its end. While in their tent, they hear a scream and a gunshot. When Carl investigates, he sees a body on the tracks. He and Hazel are drawn into the investigation of the young man's death, which also re-opens the suicide of a local farmer, which may be connected. I especially enjoyed the Wisconsin setting of this book--the St. Croix area is indeed beautiful and the author captured it well.