This book has many subtle innuendoes and provides you with the relevant information pre murder and witness events of the night of the murder immediately, will be a pretty long read before we get to the detective part. It is a pretty great build up to the eventual deciphering of the events, love the book. Makes full use of reading between the lines wonderfully, would recommend to anyone who loves detective stories and is looking for not a run of the mill explained Sherlock Holmes story