Business Writing Is Murder but It Isn't a Mystery

Sidney Allinson is a Victoria-based communications consultant, Canadian
news correspondent for Britain’s The Army Quarterly and Defence, and
author of The Bantams: The Untold Story of World War I.

Figuring out just what the authors intended is the biggest mystery
confronting readers of this book. They present useful and down-to-earth
guidelines on the difficult craft of business writing. Unfortunately,
and for reasons known only to them, they sandwich these guidelines
between chapters of a “murder mystery” about which the less said the
better. Suffice it to say that some quite worthwhile advice about
writing effective business reports and the like is lost when presented
in the context of this totally incongruous private-eye tale. Recommended
only for readers who are willing to hunt for the needle in the
proverbial haystack.