The End

After reading my book, The Rivalry, by John Feinstein, I was a bit disappointed. I had read some sports book before by him, but that weren’t mystery, and they were very good reads. I don’t think mystery writing is the right fit for Feinstein, as this book was not a good mystery. The ending of my book resulted in the referees being caught by Stevie and Susan Carroll, who tell the Secret Service agents that they are rigging the game for betting purposes and they are escorted out of the stadium. The game then heads into overtime, and finishes there without any end result. I think the ending of this book is far worse than that of Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie. In that short story, the main character, Hercule Poirot, is a fictional Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie. He is very intelligent and is amazing at solving mysteries, and somewhat resembles Sherlock Holmes. The ending of Murder on the Orient Express is far superior to the ending of my book, as it has an unexpected twist that throws the reader off. Poirot is on a train, and he is trying to solve a murder mystery. He is trying to figure out the culprit, but doesn’t realize until the end that there were in fact 13! 13 different people on the train were involved in the murder, which was a crazy twist that no one was expecting. In The Rivalry, the ending was predictable and expected, and was not very entertaining. My book lacked that kind of excitement, and therefore the ending fell short of the ending of Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie.