Code Name: Erelim trailer

Comment by John Spencer Yantiss on January 9, 2015 at 2:20am

The captioned description says it all.  In other words, the Sherrod Colsne Mysteries are not for everyone!  The dynamics of the reading population today are far different than those of even twenty years ago, changed dramatically by the "Newspeak" (term coined by George Orwell in his Nineteen Eighty-four) pseudo-means of communications known as "texting," "Tweeting," and other aberrations of abbreviation and acronymic writing and speaking.  Few readers today have the lexicon of a college student of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, preferring to rely on repetition rather than a deep and broad well of vocabulary choices.  The spoken and written word CAN be beautiful, but that joy does not exist for most.  Code Name: Erelim, just like Murder by Bequest, The Weerwolf [Dutch spelling] Problem, The Golden Dart (and Macabre2, a small tome of the preceding two short stories) is written with very descriptive and often complex sentences, and not suited for those with limited reading comprehension.

Contrary to what some choose to think, there are still quite a lot of individuals who DO have extensive language skills and personal thesauri from which to draw, and that is unlikely to change.  It is not the desire on the part of such people which has diminished, but the phenomenon of public modern public "education," an oxymoronic term itself.  Most men and women graduating from college today have less erudition than high school graduates of the first quarter of the 1900s.

The Sherrod Colsne Mysteries hearken back to casebooks of Sherlock Holmes, Nero Wolfe, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and even the more "hardboiled" likes of Sam Spade, who knew how to speak intelligently when he wished.  Unlike policemen and sleuths such as James Patterson's Cross, who can barely string together more than ten or twelve words before having to stop and think for a minute, to come up with a few more, Colsne, Monty Weston, Colsne's assistant, friend, surrogate son, and chronicler, and those with whom they choose to associate socially, have no difficulty finishing a thought without injecting five or six periods.

If this does not scare you, discover the world of Sherrod Reynard Colsne at http://www.amazon.com/author/johnspenceryantiss.

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