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The Missing Piece (Paperback)
by Antoine Bello (Author)
3.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
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  • Paperback: 247 pages
  • Publisher: Serpent's Tail (31 Jan 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1852426489
  • ISBN-13: 978-1852426484
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,086,861 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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The Herald
‘An entertaining, witty, inventive novel as well as an original and enthralling puzzle'

Time Out
‘A fascinating novel, wayward and witty, full of red herrings but scrupulously fair. Far more fun than a jigsaw’

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3.0 out of 5 stars A book different from most., 9 Feb 2006
By Johan Klovsjö (Linköping, Sweden) - See all my reviews
I picked up The Missing Piece expecting something more akin to a murder mystery. What I instead got was the fabricament of a fictional "speed puzzling tour", including two competing organizations and a (fictional? entirely? mostly?) history of the puzzling world. Oh, and someone got murdered too.

Now, there is an actual puzzle in this book, the one where you solve the murders of 5 speed puzzle tour-connected people. But since the book is told mostly through news paper reports, live speed puzzle comments, and board/committee reports etc., there is not much of a plot with which you can feel there's a story being told. Only when you have aquired a fair amount of information do you feel like there's actually something going on here. And that information is little and far inbetween.

Although the fictional world of the speed puzzle circuit is quite entertaining and the end where the mystery of the murder is explained, this book holds not much else.

If not for the fascinating and disturbing end of the book, I would have considered this one a waste of time. However, I will allow it 3 stars and recommend it to those who really want to try something different. Or maybe like puzzles. It's not so long, after all.

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