Last of the Great Boondoggles

Author : Alex Fleming

Genre : Comedy, Crime

Review Extract from Review By: Tommi

"Boondoggles

Well, what a delightful mix of Kafka, Yes Minister and Dixon of Dock Green. I often find that beautiful ideas are poorley executed (like high concept movies), but not this. You have an effortless, fluent style that makes your prose positively race by.

If I have a niggle it's that this is so stylised I didn't feel I could justify the full five for story or character, but you certainly get it for everything else, and others may disagree with my assessment of these categories - personally I want just a few more layers and hinted underbellies to give these fives. Nonetheless, you create a world that I could happily inhabit for a long time, although I can't help feeling it would be better as a TV show in the Last of the Summer Wine mould, whihc you'll either take as a compliment or a slight - the former is intended.

Synopsis
A new inspector arrives in a sleepy rural community, where he finds himself confronted by a series of increasingly baffling cases. It is some time before he wonders whether he is not the solution but the problem...
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