This story brought some Sherlock Holmes stuff into it. The special Agent Pendergast has a bunch of kids he supports. Why he supports the one in the story is beyond me. She's pretty much a dolt. She's so dumb she was about to date her killer. She's so dumb she didn't know where to get information and any help from anyone else; she was jealous most of the time that she didn't uncover info herself. Selfish bitch. She (Corrie) also gets free college from Pendergast, along with whatever help he's obligated to do for her.
She goes out on her own when expressly told not to. She runs into the killer and thinks he's her boyfriend while he proceeds to burn her to death. Meantime she loses a finger and breaks her ankle, cannot defend herself in the least, like a poor wet kitten and somehow doesn't end up the stupid burnt to a crisp body in the old mining caves. Don't ask me how the person who died ended up in there cuz no one is going to tell you. I wish Corrie did die would have been more in the style of the novel. You do realize Darwin's law??? Well she's not supposed to live thru that. THE END far as I'm concerned.
Good enough to read thru, intriguing for awhile in spots, some places you need to skip some pages, repetition, etc. There isn't much of a mystery, no one is murdered with a case to solve. It's some college project little Corrie wants to do her senior project on a bunch of insane miners in the early 1900s which coincidently leads to the same story old Pendergast is chasing. That's sort of ho hum as well. No one from the old timers are now connected to the billionaires living high off the hog. The old story is an old story. Belongs in the archives of boring.
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