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15 August 2014
So, who really did kill the turfman?
THIS IS NOT A NOVEL!
Sometime between Conan Doyle's Sherlock and modern forensics was an era when the very rich and very famous could literally get away with murder. So it was with the 1920 unsolved death of Joseph Bowne Elwell (and the unsolved death of Starr Faithfull a couple of years later). These murders formed the bases for a plethora of best-selling novels [The Benson Murder Case for Elwell and Butterfield 8 for Faithfull], provided grist for such luminary writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Ellery Queen duo, and many movies. In essence, the Elwell murder became the prototype for "locked room" mysteries.
The J. Goodman book is a pedantic step-by-step slogging through the case, beginning with Elwell's ancestry, his evolution as a whist/bridge expert to the NYC rich, to his attraction to young socialites, to his unusual death behind locked doors, and to the bumbling and stumbling and ego strips of law enforcement. Goodman was one of England's brightest story-telling criminologists. Unfortunately his writing style is oh-so-British.
This case merits a careful read AS LONG AS you can tolerate his somewhat unusual choice of adjectives and adverbs, his teeny footnotes, and his pinched paragraphs from NY Times and other papers.
Like nearly all historical crime writers faced with an unsolved crime, he feels obligated to proffer his opinion to Elwell's killer. And wonders aloud why the long arm of the law never bothered to probe into the motives of that person.
Whether you believe his opinion or not, his quarter-century old telling of the now-nearly-century old murder is a most interesting read.
29 January 2020
Sound quality and level from song to song poor.
sound quality is terrible. Many of these recordings are featured on You tube where the quality is far superior. Sound level varies from song to song near the end if the second CD.
Oh and the plastic case was broken at the hinge and unusable. Once the extracted the CDs, they seemed undamaged. but the case cannot be reused.
01 April 2021
You can't stretch plastic!
After struggling with assembly for over 4 hours, I did some measurements and found that the nubs spacing on the vertical sections were as much as 1/2" further apart than the receptors on the horizontal sections. It is impossible to set the steps regardless of whether you tapped them with a rubber mallet or a 5 lb sledge. It's just not possible to stretch plastic. I wasted more than $100 on this poorly designed product. The trash man cometh! Better solution: buy a two step step stool.