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Title: The Dirty Duck by Martha Grimes, Tim Curry ISBN: 0-671-75989-2 Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Audio) Pub. Date: January, 1993 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Short And Funny
Comment: This is one of her shorter stories that can be enjoyed in an afternoon. The meeting of Melrose Plant and Harvey Schoenberg is hysterical! I felt I could see Melrose's brain desperately trying to decode this odd little man's obscure theory of Shakespeare and friends. And yes, some Americans in Europe can be a little overbearing, when left to their own means. I enjoyed it ever so much!
Rating: 3
Summary: Not as Good as the Others in this Wonderful Series
Comment: I am puzzled by Martha Grimes' response to Americans in this novel. As an American, albeit one who is writing British mysteries, she comes up with a whole tour full of unsympathetic American tourists here--even down to what I think are supposed to be humerous names for them. I think this is unfortunate, since it weakens the book, which has a plot that could have held up just as well if the characters were less insistantly annoying.
Martha Grimes is one of my favorite writers, and I don't think this novel holds up anywhere near as well as the others in this wonderful series.
Rating: 5
Summary: Be careful what you wish for
Comment: I was taking a few days off work (can you call it vacation if you mostly stay home and drive your kids and their friends around?) so I didn't want to read the stack of business books waiting for me. And I didn't feel ready to get back into Tolkien. I told my wife I wanted a mystery that I could read in a couple of days - nothing as cerebral as Holmes, but not a fluff (vacation shouldn't be a total waste). She hands me The Dirty Duck. Yes another really great Detective Superintendent Richard Jury story. A bucket full of interesting (read: quirky, but loveable) characters in a great setting (Stratford-on Avon) - only one of them has this nasty thing about using a razor in a most unconventional way - and then leaving a bit of poetry on the corpses as a signature. And just to add a twist, a little boy who is related to two of the victims is missing. I put Martha Grimes right up there with Christie for character and plot twists any day. If you haven't sampled Martha Grimes yet, you don't know what you are missing.
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Title: The Deer Leap by Martha Grimes ISBN: 0440119383 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 October, 1986 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Anodyne Necklace by Martha Grimes ISBN: 0451410890 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Old Silent by Martha Grimes ISBN: 0440204925 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 03 August, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Rainbow's End by Martha Grimes ISBN: 0345394267 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Old Contemptibles by Martha Grimes ISBN: 0345374568 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 22 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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