a ghost, scotland, 2 locked room mysteries. This was my first gideon fell but will not be the last ( )

Pleasant enough read (for a story about a grisly way to die). The major problem with the story is that, according to my husband the engineer, the diabolical method used in the crime could not have actually worked. Other than that, .... See p. 136 for the author's explanation, but carbonic acid from dry ice in a room-size space would not be concentrated enough to kill a person.
The advantage of having an unofficial detective solve a crime is that he can share as much or as little with the police and others as is necessary in order to improve the lives of the survivors. If the common-law widow knew that her loved one's death was suicide and not murder, then she would have spent the rest of her life believing he was condemned to eternal suffering. ( )

En El caso de los suicidios constantes, el investigador Gideon Fell -uno de los protagonistas de las novelas de Carr- se enfrenta con el tradicional problema del recinto cerrado, en este caso en la mansión de una vieja familia escocesa.

I'm torn ... I enjoyed reading it, but when I got to the end and the solution, I found myself saying "Really? Really?! Gimme a break!" I haven't raved about it to anyone and am not champing at the bit to start another Dr. Fell mystery. ( )

wild madcap story set in Scotland just as war was beginning ( )