![]() Both the comfortable drawing-room style of the British tradition and the rat-a-tat approach of the emerging American hardboiled style are eschewed in favour of something more like an intense literary effect, dense with psychological insight and sociological commentary.Still readers are bound to be pleasantly surprised by its twisted, and potentially brutal, ending-which is still effective.Īpart from that clever denouement, the virtues of this story lie largely in the writing (no surprise there), but specifically in how different the writing is from everything else in the crime and mystery field in 1931: ![]() Ottermole" sensational, melodramatic and overheated, in the vein of genre writers trying to appear more mainstream. This may perplex readers who are not critics, crime writers or aficionados of the genre's past glories. The story continues to appear in anthologies as one of the classics of the field. Ottermole" was selected by critics as the best mystery story of all time and thirty-five years later The Mystery Writers of America voted Thomas Burke's effort one of the top four mystery and suspense tales for its Mystery Hall of Fame.
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