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Your uncrackable safe has been cracked, and your multimillion-dollar Gutenberg Bible is gone. Who you gonna call? The police? Jim Rockford? No, no, no; you want The Best. You want detectives who will find the unfindable and solve the unsolvable. You want the firm of Holmes, Marple and Poe. These sleuths have already managed to clear up some vexing cases, much to the chagrin of the police commissioner, mayor, and maybe even the governor. They do not care who they embarrass; they only want the truth — and a whole lot of your money.
I have always been wary (as other reviewers here have as well) of big-name writers teaming up with less well-known writers. Unfortunately, anything that even smacks of Sherlock Holmes or Miss Marple will distract me from my regular life; I only wish that I had more to show for it after reading this entire work of dross. The characters were very enjoyable, and how they obtained their monikers was clever (they are not related to their namesakes), but the mysteries (more than one) were completely unsatisfactory in both their resolutions and their origins. It was so poorly written that I was able to anticipate almost everything.
Sadly, random instances of real creativity did pop up occasionally, which gave me false hopes more than once. I genuinely seek after good mystery/thrillers, and I continued to hope as I slogged through this book, but alas, it was all in vain.
Rated: High. Profanity includes a dozen uses of strong language, 30 instances of vain usage of some form of deity, and more than 80 occasions of mild cursing and other crude terms.
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