The Noose

Entertaining and engaging but stretched out. I estimate its 213 pages could have been reduced to 150 without negatively impacting the story. MacDonald pads it with detailed descriptions of irrelevant things and by spending an inordinate amount of time on the behaviour of the wife of the unjustly convicted prisoner. If I had been his editor, I would have had a long and pointed conversation with the author. Not his best effort by a long shot.