EMMA

EMMA

Jane Austin

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

I saw the movie before I purchased and read this book. The written novel is much funnier than the movie.

Jane's English prose is exquisite. The characters and their quirks, opinions on mundane items, as someone going out in the light rain to the post office, are hysterical.

 I could go on and on about the many episodes that explain and describe characters' traits, but I will not. EMMA faults in all her evaluations of who is in love with whom.

EMMA concludes, at the end of 500 pages of indulgences, that she could not see what was in front of her for many years, her love for another.

This is a romance comedy you will love.

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A STUDY IN SCARLET

 

A STUDY IN SCARLET

 Arthur Conan Doyle

 

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

SCARLET is the first in the Sherlock Holmes series, where he meets Dr. Watson to become roommates in 1878. "No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so," Holmes answers Dr. Watson's question on deduction.

Their relationship develops between the two when a London detective arrives at the new residence, facing a quagmire of being unable to solve a crime. Watson and the detectives have cluttered minds as they watch Sherlock go about developing a resolve.

A man is found dead with no apparent wounds. When a second man, who had been in the company of the first man, is dead in another part of London, Sherlock has solved the crime and has put a trap in place because of a carriage imprint.

Every one of Sherlock's cohorts, including the reader, is oblivious to his deductions until the crime is solved and he enlightens the men with cluttered minds. How did Holmes do that? --- will be on everyone's mind.

Arthur Conan Doyle's SCARLET is a fast-paced adventure that will bring in a new reader of the adventures. Years ago, it did for me, and I've been a mystery-genre lover since.

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The BODY in the BOOKSTORE

The BODY in the

BOOKSTORE

ELLIE ALEXANDER

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

All my followers know I am a mystery nut. This cozy mystery by Ms. Alexander is one of the better ones I have read for some time.

Annie, the main character, has a college degree in snooping but works selling books because of a past event. Out of her past, at a Mystery Festival in the small town of Redwood Grove, her classmates and professor show up.

All, other than the professor, who is a Town Detective, are suspects in the murder of a classmate hidden in the bookstore vault. Annie teams up with the professor and a friend to solve the crime.

Who done it? Well, that doesn't lead to who did. However, the reader will have a choice, which is the fun part of the novel, a la the book CLUE.

Supporting characters make this a series to read.

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