![]() Add on to that a great narrative style and great characters and you have an extraordinary mystery that sort of borders on science fiction too given the location and all. ![]() It gets even more interesting when that closed society loses communication with the rest of the world and starts postulating about what happened to the rest of the world and how the last survivors will adapt. There's so much packed into this novel, particularly what happens in a society cut off from the rest of the world and the odd things that happen in such a closed, isolated society. Interestingly, the lead character is a Joseph Heller, which immediately made me think of Catch-22 and, wouldn't you know it, that becomes a part of the story too. So, it's sort of a locked room Mystery as is actually discussed in the story but it's a locked room murder mystery weekend in the Catskills taken to the extreme - in a scientific research station at the South Pole with 157 suspects as once winter falls they are all locked in for the duration. ![]() At first, it reminds you a bit of Asimov's Caves of Steel series with a police detective going to a bubble-like space station separate and apart from the rest of civilization to solve a murder mystery. ![]() A Wonderful top-notch, well-plotted mystery. ![]()
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