Entertaining stories - poor proofreading

Though the collection is named for Sgt Elk, he is usually on the periphery. The primary characters vary (policeman, prosecutor, crime reporter, etc) which gives a different flavour to each story. The villains are inventive and the denouements frequently surprising - they kept me reading when I should have been doing something else.

Proofreading (apart from the early pages) appears to have been non-existent. For the most part you can read past the errors without noticing too much. What did jar was a considerable section where the author makes heavy use of long dashes which have been incorrectly coded in the Kindle version so that instead of each long dash you see "mdash;" ( )