Enter Dr. Nikola!

Six days.

Six days to read 213 pages.

This should give you some inkling of what kind of book A Bid for Fortune is. There are essentially two main characters in this: Dr Nikola, a Napoleon of crime and very interesting character, and the protagonist, who was so mind-numbingly boring that I can't even remember his name.

Who do you think was in 95% of the book? And who do you think appeared in roughly 3 scenes?

My hope (as there are four more books in this series) is that this opening salvo is like the first Pink Panther movie--that's the movie made before Blake Edwards realized that Clouseau was the more interesting character and instead focused largely on David Niven for the majority of the film. Overall, though, this book was not worth reading.