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Title: Summer's Lease by Martin Jarvis, John Clifford Mortimer ISBN: 0-7451-6176-6 Publisher: Chivers Audio Books Pub. Date: January, 1996 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $69.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A thinking person's summer book
Comment: The setting is an English family in a rented summer home in Tuscany. Odd things happen, water disappears, and then someone dies. The mother, Molly Partiger, becomes obsesses with getting to the heart of these mysteries, and with meeting her mysterious landlord. It is a particular pleasure to see Mortimer's love of Shakespeare comes through in Molly's Falstaff of a father, and the Hamlet-like play-within-a-play which gives Molly the final clue to the murder. Interwoven with the plot is an homage to Piero della Francesca (although it has been written that Mortimer gets everything wrong about Piero's Flagellation). The book ends with typical Mortimer poigniancy. The book is light in the way that a Tom Stoppard play is light -- an intelligent guilty pleasure.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic book!
Comment: this book is fantastic. the masterpiece theatre production was awesome too. i would like to buy a copy of the video if anyone has one. this is definitely worth reading - and watching too!
Rating: 5
Summary: ALMOST LIKE A TRIP TO CHIANTISHIRE!
Comment: I read this book because I saw the Masterpiece Theatre production on TV in the early nineties and fell in love with the characters and the story. This is the type of detective mystery novel where one can truly relate to the detective as she is an average person with a highly developed sense of curiosity. While I shared Molly's intense curiosity about her absent landlord and her outrage at the so called "water racket", I would not have gone as far as she did to satisfy that curiosity. Molly is rather reckless (if not stupid) towards the end and doesn't realize the consequences of her actions until too late - and even then chalks it up to coincidence. All in all the book is a quick and delightful read that will have you longing to travel to those Tuscan hills. I wish Masterpiece Theatre would rerun the film or make it available on video. You've got to see the film. The cast was so well chosen and the locations are beautiful, especially the terrace on La Felicita.
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Title: Paradise Postponed by John Clifford Mortimer ISBN: 014009864X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Hills of Tuscany by Ferenc Mate ISBN: 0385334419 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 12 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: A Small Place in Italy by Eric Newby ISBN: 0330338188 Publisher: MacMillan Pub Ltd Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Uniform Justice: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery by Donna Leon ISBN: 0871139030 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Tuscan Year : Life and Food in an Italian Valley by Elizabeth Romer ISBN: 0865473870 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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