- Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Avon; First THUS edition (July 1 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0380726793
- ISBN-13: 978-0380726790
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.7 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 91 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #760,704 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Spending time with author Craig on matha's vineyard is the next best thing to vacationing on the island yourself." -- "Minneapolis Star-Tribune""Reading Philip R. Craig isarmchair traveling at its finest."-- "Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine""This is a good one"-- "Chattanooga Times"
Book Description
A toast to the happy couple . . .
with hemlock
Vineyard wedding bells are about to chime for ex-Boston cop-turned-island-fisherman J.W. Jackson and his lady Zee Madieras. And Zee's Automatic Teller tells them rather substantial "present" has been deposited in the bride-to-be's account: one hundred thousand unexplained dollars.
The bank screams, "computer glitch"! And sure enough, two days later, the windfall has flown. But, coincidentally, the college student lying dead in J.W.'s driveway'a young woman done in by a dose of locally grown poison'recently withdrew a hundred grand from her own account. And now, before exchanging vows with his love, J.W. must first match wits with a murderer who may be gearing up to kill again.
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It all started with a bluefish blitz at Metcalf's Hole on South Beach. Read the first page
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Best read with Vineyard sand in your shoes,
By Dom Miliano (Denville, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
Ce commentaire est de: Case Of Vineyard Poison Mm (Mass Market Paperback)
OK, the "Vineyard" series does not represent great literature. However, that's not the point about these 'atmospheric' novels is it? You read these kind of books while you're on the Cape or to bring you mentally back to the place. This one has a better plot that the others I have read in the series but the dialogue remains the weak point. Enough with the fishing and the traffic jams too, please. All in all, since we go to the Cape every year, this series is a fun read for me. However, if you want read a good series with excellent dialogue and a strong sense of place, find one of the Dibdin novels. They are set in Italy and they are wonderful.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Like the rest of his books,
By Jamie Gregorian (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews
Ce commentaire est de: Case Of Vineyard Poison Mm (Mass Market Paperback)
Craig's biggest downfall is the third-rate dialogue he employs. It's often trite and unrealistic, I criticism I noted in another review of one of his books. The storyline is actually better in this book than in others. There's an unexpected twist that throws you at the end, which makes it better reading than Craig's other works. As with his other "Martha's Vineyard Mysteries," the story centers on another adventure with retired Boston cop (and Vineyard resident), J.W. Jackson. He finds a dead girl in his driveway, and goes about solving her murder. There are subplots that don't really add to the story, and as I said above, the dialogue is crap. I'm sure the reason I keep reading Craig's books is that if you are a Vineyarder (as I am), there are few better ways to conjure up images of the island than his books. His descriptions of such things as the traffic jams and night life on the Vineyard are incredibly realistic and offer a respite to someone like me who only gets to spend a week or two per year on the island. Non-Vineyarders would do better to find something else.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Mystery or fishing story,
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Ce commentaire est de: Case Of Vineyard Poison Mm (Mass Market Paperback)
This novel seems to be a little bit of mystery added into a story about fishing on Martha's Vineyard with a travelogue of the island. The author puts a little too much emphasis on the fishing. An interesting basis was developed for the crime, i.e., manipulating inter-bank transfers, with intelligent criminals fumbling the implementation, but maybe there are one too many characters/complications/side issues.
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