Seven Keys to Baldpate

A pretty good read. I recall vaguely seeing the play version as a kid and wanted to try it. The style is comic and droll, but probably moves slowly for a modern audience. The last 1/4 is a bit drawn out and the twist comes well before the end. Overall enjoyable and melodramatic.

Pretty good. It's a good thing it's short, because it was right on the edge of becoming tiresome, but at it's given length it was pretty entertaining, if a bit predictable.

Good book and a decent mystery. The last 2 chapters seemed to drag on. Reaching a conclusion was drawn out.

I can't recall what precisely brought this title to my attention, though I remember being interested in sampling the Charlie Chan books. But just as the prior reviewer says, the book devolves into perfect nonsense. I've lost the will to continue at about the half-way point. I may browse quickly through the resolution, but frankly, none of the characters rings at all true or empathic, even the narrator.

This is a very convoluted story which didn't grip me at any moment. Nobody knows anything, everybody hunts for a stolen treasure, and the whole story remains mysterious and boring until the very end. A waste of time.

I listened to the audiobook, recorded by LibriVox volunteers, and as a non-native speaker, I had trouble understanding some of the chapters, due to a very strong accent of one of the narrators. This naturally added to the fact that I didn't enjoy the story.

1911 Baldpate Inn in Upper Asquewan Falls, William Magee has made an arrangement to stay at the closed mountain resort, alone.
Then the holders of the other 6 available keys start arriving. What is it that they want, who is the real owner of the package. Is Magee the only innocent.
An enjoyable historical mystery story

I read three quarters of this book and then totally lost the plot. Thought that it was going to make sense but in the end it just lost me. What a waste of time!