Customer Reviews for Out of the Picture (Museum of Mysteries Hardcover Book #6)

"Out of the Picture" started out in grand fashion, but really fell apart after the first few chapters. I felt Scarlett was much too emotional, she seemed to be in tears after talking to people about a fire that occurred years ago and apparently killed a man she didn't know. If snooping around upset her so much you would think she would just tell the police about the photograph and let them handle it. Some of the interviews didn't make sense, like going to see Mabel again just so she could make a face for them again. Some of the people she talked to didn't seem real either. For example, Cory was a loud, angry bully of a man throughout the novel. At the very end he suddenly was smiling and friendly. Why? Apparently because a man he barely knew who died 12 years ago was found to be alive. Odd. The biggest problem I had was it was never explained, as far as I could tell, why Nolan pretended to be the body in the fire. He was a rising artist who loved to create art, yet he decided to pretend to be dead for 12 years, unable to show his art to anyone, even though he continued producing it non stop for 12 years. Why would he do this? The novel explains how he switched identities with the dead man but not why. Also odd is that he has been living hand to mouth for years, but now that he can sell his artwork he wants to give the money away to help art students of a woman he hadn't seen in 12 years. Really? I'm sorry, The novel started out so well but really let me down. Some characters were quite well drawn, but others really made no sense to me. Chuck Nebraska