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Summary: Psuedo-Mysterious
Review: Hmmm... not sure if I can find the words to describe this one. Trite? Pretenious? Boooooorrrrring? While Kate Fansler is both amatuer sleuth and professor of English, there is absolutely no reason for her to go around spouting off obscure Joycean witticisms to any and everybody (and I actually like Joyce)! For the non-English studies person some parts of the text will make absolutely no sense, and for the English studies person those parts will just seem senseless. I was literally more than 1/3 finished with the book before I realized that the crime had not yet take place because Cross had spent most of that time making sure that the reader was well aware of her knowledge on Joyce....
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Summary: GREAT ACADEMIC MYSTERY
Review: In this early Kate Fansler mystery, Kate spends some time away from the university, sorting letters from James Joyce to his American publisher. A local unlovable woman gets shot and the fun begins. This is an entertaining book with many possible suspects and almost as many plot twists.
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Summary: GREAT ACADEMIC MYSTERY
Review: In this early Kate Fansler mystery, Kate spends some time away from the university, sorting letters from James Joyce to his American publisher. A local unlovable woman gets shot and the fun begins. This is an entertaining book with many possible suspects and almost as many plot twists.
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Summary: Erudite funny mystery
Review: Several academics in a country house containing rare James Joyce manuscripts. The murder plot is secondary to a lot of talk about academic and literary life some of which is clever and informative. The dialog is elaborate and full of phrases such as "If you had decided to embrace the rural life you might in decency have let me know" interpolated with Oscar Wilde type paradoxes, which are sometimes mildly amusing. Many cliches - people are in "hot pursuit" "immured in the library" "deep in conversation" and fall into "fitful sleep" If you like this you will like Sarah Caudwell, but the reverse does not hold. It's just not as good as Caudwell.
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Summary: Erudite funny mystery
Review: Several academics in a country house containing rare James Joyce manuscripts. The murder plot is secondary to a lot of talk about academic and literary life some of which is clever and informative. The dialog is elaborate and full of phrases such as "If you had decided to embrace the rural life you might in decency have let me know" interpolated with Oscar Wilde type paradoxes, which are sometimes mildly amusing. Many cliches - people are in "hot pursuit" "immured in the library" "deep in conversation" and fall into "fitful sleep" If you like this you will like Sarah Caudwell, but the reverse does not hold. It's just not as good as Caudwell.
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