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Title: The Marble Mask by Archer Mayor ISBN: 0-446-61029-1 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Master Artist With Words
Comment: All of Archer Mayor's books have a gripping story line. Although the stories are first class, the pictures drawn with words as the story unfolds are the best that I have ever encountered. The magnificent metaphors can create, in less than one sentence, images that may take other authors pages. Although each book is independent in and of itself, I enjoy reading the stories in sequence. There is a steady progression in character development and interpersonal relationships as we go from story to story.
If you are a mystery fan, I am sure that you will enjoy the entire series as much as I have. If you are a student taking a course in creative writing, I don't think that you will find a better word artist than Archer Mayor.
Rating: 5
Summary: You've gotta read this guy
Comment: Archer Mayor is steadily turning out first rate mysteries with a strong sense of place. Set in Vermont, Mayor's books capture their setting beautifully with quirky local details. But better still are Mayor's wild (yet plausible) plots. In this, his latest, the police find a frozen body with several missing parts (which broke off when the body was dropped from a plane). They quickly determine that the body belongs to a Canadian gangster, who disappeared fifty years earlier. The plot brings detective Joe Gunther to Sherbrooke, Canada, and involves delving into the history of a suicide-mission World War II commando unit, the product of a joint Canada-U.S. effort. One of Gunther's sidekicks -- the growling misanthrope Willy Kunkle -- brings a lot to these books as a character who evolves from book to book.
Just marvelous.
Rating: 5
Summary: Well done plot
Comment: Former Brattlesboro police chief Joe Gunther knows that finesse and politeness are critical if the newly formed Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI) is to succeed. Joe, being a former town cop, knows that the locals will not appreciate outsiders from the state. As a matter of truth, the VBI has been mired under bureaucratic inertia until the Governor, answering a reporter's question, publicly assigns its first case even if the Stowe police chief has not asked for help.
The body of Canadian Jean Deschamps has been found frozen on the side of Mt. Mansfield. Someone with surgical skills amputated his feet and an arm, and punctured his heart. To Joe, the victim seems more like a frozen fossil since he has been iced for over five decades. As Joe and his crack team investigate the homicide, he also needs to massage the egos of the local law enforcement team, the Canadian liaison, the media, and the public expectations of the VBI's capabilities. At the same time, the threat of gang warfare in Jean's home province of Quebec increases the pressure to expeditiously solve the case.
The eleventh Gunther mystery is a dramatic change in the star's role as he switches from local policing to state law enforcement. The change is smoothly done as Joe's inner values and methodology remain the same, but the type of case and the political implications have moved to a higher level. THE MARBLE MASK is a strong police procedural that will excite fans of the series with its fascinating plot that combines a solid investigation with puissant external interests hampering the inquiry. Taking a risk, Archer Mayor continues to be a leading light of the New England regional mystery.
Harriet Klausner
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Title: Tucker Peak by Archer Mayor ISBN: B0000AA9J4 Publisher: Mysterious Press Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.45 |
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Title: Occam's Razor by Archer Mayor ISBN: 0446608874 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Ragman's Memory by Archer Mayor ISBN: 0446605905 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Open Season by Archer Mayor ISBN: 0446404144 Publisher: Mysterious Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Bellows Falls by Archer Mayor ISBN: 0446606308 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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