A Secret Affair vs The Four Pools Mystery: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Journalists, New york, Fiction
A Secret Affair
Seeking some much-needed rest and relaxation after a long stint as a TV-news war correspondent in Bosnia, 33-year-old Bill Fitzgerald travels to Venice. There he is struck by the dark beauty of a young American woman,…
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The Four Pools Mystery
Terry Patten, star-reporter for the The Post-Dispatch, is called to investigate a case of missing bonds allegedly stolen by a ghost from a safe at Four-Pools Plantation in Virginia when Colonel Gaylord, the patriarch of…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- The Four Pools Mystery has the widest readership — 136 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| A Secret Affair | The Four Pools Mystery | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.3 (136) |
| Hardcover | 1.0 (1) | — |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 3.5 (111) | 4.0 (10) |
Reception
| A Secret Affair | The Four Pools Mystery | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 111 | 136 |
| Editions | 6 | 98 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 202 |
| Pages | 400 | — |