I had picked up Agatha Christie’s “The Mysterious Mr. Quin” thinking that it is one novel – but to my immense delight it turned out to be a collection of short stories. What a treat!

I finished it in no time but when I went back to the library to exchange it for a collection of 4 novels that I had earlier seen I found that it was already issued out. That meant I spent the next half an hour hunting for another book. Fortunately I saw one of Clive Cussler’s – The Chase – on a lower shelf. This came as a surprise because earlier I had asked one of the attendants if the library had any more of Cussler’s books and he had replied in the negative.

I checked the brief storyline printed at the back and found it interesting so I got it issued. But since then I have been wondering if I made the right choice. So far I have been reading about a thug called “Butcher Bandit” who goes on looting banks in small mining towns but I have no idea how he connects up with the 3 bodies in the locomotive fished out of some lake. Add to that, the boring descriptions of guns, bikes and other assorted stuff! Cussler has so far let me down. :-(