Review of The Eternal Sphinxman
5 stars
“The Eternal Sphinxman” is an utterly engrossing and
fast-paced mystery which I read in one sitting, simply because I could not bear
to put it down until the denouement(s). This is one mystery in which the author
is very careful not to telegraph the results; there are several possibilities,
but the reader won’t know until the end which possibility, if any, is the
accurate one. Peeling back the layers of façade at a Greek fraternity, at a “historically
black only college” in Southern Louisiana, author Jones treats readers to a
smorgasbord of characters, activity, and twisted plotting. Even the backdrop
characters (such as two of the main characters encounter later on in another
town) are catchy, intriguing, and carriers of facts about the situations. The
fraternity becomes something of a character itself, as it takes on a life of
its own, and that works wonderfully well in the context of this novel.
I totally enjoyed this story and expect to be rereading it
in future.
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