Would you like to see this page in English? Click here.

Vous en avez un à vendre?
Vendez les vôtres ici
 
 
Roll over and Play Dead
  
Cherchez à l'intérieur d’une autre édition de ce livre

Roll over and Play Dead (Hardcover)

de Joan Hess (Author) "One of these days I'm going to take a three-day seminar in assertiveness training ..." En savoir plus
3.5étoiles sur 5  Voir tous les commentaires (2 évaluations de client)

Offert par ces vendeurs.


5 d'occasion à partir de CDN$ 3.35

Les clients qui ont acheté cet article ont aussi acheté

A Conventional Corpse: A Claire Malloy Mystery

A Conventional Corpse: A Claire Malloy Mystery

de Joan Hess
3.5étoiles sur 5 (18)  CDN$ 8.99
Dear Miss Demeanor

Dear Miss Demeanor

de Joan Hess
4.1étoiles sur 5 (7)  CDN$ 8.99
Strangled Prose: A Claire Malloy Mystery

Strangled Prose: A Claire Malloy Mystery

de Joan Hess
5.0étoiles sur 5 (2)  CDN$ 9.99
Out on a Limb: A Claire Malloy Mystery

Out on a Limb: A Claire Malloy Mystery

de Joan Hess
4.2étoiles sur 5 (8)  CDN$ 8.99
The Murder At The Mimosa Inn: A Claire Malloy Mystery

The Murder At The Mimosa Inn: A Claire Malloy Mystery

de Joan Hess
3.0étoiles sur 5 (5)  CDN$ 8.99
› Découvrez des articles similaires

Les détails du produit

Descriptions du produit

From Publishers Weekly

Agreeing to care for two basset hounds while their elderly owner is away, bookseller Claire Malloy is introduced to the underworld of pet snatchers.redundant, if they're stolen When the hounds left in her care disappear, Claire discovers other neighborhood pets in her small university town are also missing. A check at the animal shelter turns up the information that the unsavory Newton Churls runs an operation licensed to sell animals for medical research. An official inspection, authorized by an unwilling sheriff, proves unavailing. The bereft pet owners and Claire's teenage daughter Caron attempt a nighttime commando raid; when Claire follows them, she finds Churls torn to death by his pit bulls. On the lam to keep up the search and avoid being called as a material witness, Claire is attacked by several unsavory country boys at an animal sale; a ransom demand further complicates the case. Hess again provides lively and diverting entertainment via her brash and articulate detective, last seen in A Diet to Die For .
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.


From Kirkus Reviews

Farberville's bookstore-owner/occasional sleuth Claire Malloy (A Diet to Die For, etc.) has consented to care for Emily Parchester's African violets and basset hounds, Nick and Nora, while Emily takes a trip. Days later, the hounds have disappeared, along with the various pets of neighbors on the block, and Claire is in the middle of a plot to recover them from the filthy quarters of nasty Newton Churls, notorious local animal-dealer. Not so easy, especially after Churls is killed by his pit bulls--not accidentally; Claire's warned off by the local law; a couple of Churls's brutish redneck pals are prowling the neighborhood, and Claire's teenaged daughter, Caron, and friend Inez undertake some heroics of their own. Another of the author's ditsy mixes--a worthy issue; a few eccentrics; lots of ill-advised forays into danger; and a blithe heroine whose ironic reflections often produce a chuckle. Of special interest to dedicated animal-lovers. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Voir toutes les Descriptions du produit
Dans ce livre (les détails)
First Sentence
One of these days I'm going to take a three-day seminar in assertiveness training. Lire la première page
En découvrir plus
Concordance
Parcourir les pages échantillon
Plat recto | Droit d'auteur | Extrait | Plat verso
Cherchez à l'intérieur de ce livre:

Associer des mots-clés à ce produit

 (De quoi s'agit-il ?)
Considérez votre mot-clé comme une sorte d'étiquette définissant parfaitement ce produit.
Les mots-clés aident les clients à organiser et trouver leurs articles favoris.
Vos mots-clés : Ajouter votre premier mot-clé
 
Voir les mots-clés les plus populaires
 

L'avis des consommateurs

2 évaluations
5 étoiles:
 (1)
4 étoiles:    (0)
3 étoiles:    (0)
2 étoiles:
 (1)
1 étoiles:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Évaluation du client type
3.5étoiles sur 5 (2 évaluations de client)
 
 
 
 
Partagez votre opinion avec les autres clients:
Commentaires client les plus utiles

 
5.0étoiles sur 5 Not her best, but still good!, Nov. 8 2003
Par Un client
This review is from: Roll Over and Play Dead: A Claire Malloy Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)
Roll Over & Play Dead reveals Hess as her usual entertaining, witty self, but this time it's with a twist: she takes on the controversial issue of animal testing. Most of the general public really doesn't know (and may not want to know) what goes on in the world of animal testing. I do know; I've been in some animal testing labs. The world of animal testing is much uglier & more unconscionable than animal research scientists would have you believe. Hess always writes a good story, and this time she includes a worthy cause that definitely needs more press. I'm impressed that she tackled the issue!
Ce commentaire vous a-t-il été utile ? Oui Non (Signaler ce commentaire)



 
2.0étoiles sur 5 Sheer propaganda!, Mai 25 1999
Par Un client
This review is from: Roll Over and Play Dead (Mass Market Paperback)
I have recently become a dedicated Joan Hess fan. However, I have been reading her books out of order. Yesterday I started "Roll Over and Play Dead" ready for another light, funny story. Unfortunately, I got a speech from a soapbox. On page 28 one of the "good 'guys'" states: "The National Institute of Health gives away over three and a half billion dollars of your tax dollars so researchers can cut animals up, cripple them, blind them, burn them, infect them with diseases, and in general torture them. Over seventy million animals die this way every year so that someone can determine that you really shouldn't drink paint solvent or put it in your eyes."

WHOA! Where to begin? In the context of this story the reader is led to believe that the majority of these poor animals are pets - cats and dogs. NOT!!! Yes, I have been involved in animal research. I, like the vast majority of whole animal researchers, use rats. Never have I caused a rat undue pain (they are anesthetized by legal and moral code). Never have I pounded nails in a skull or any of the atrocities put forth in this book. In fact, I have never even heard of such a thing occuring in a lab. On the other hand, I HAVE heard of such things in pets homes from a vet tech student of mine. Such horrible cruelties are much more commonly afflicted upon animals by their "loving" owners.

I stuck with this book through the end even after countless assults on scientists and the necessity of medical research. I have never worked with dogs but I still take offense at the insults steeped high in the course of the story.

I respect the views of animal rights groups. However I fully agree with a poster hanging in the lab where I worked. It shows a group of protesters and the caption reads "Because of animal research, they have 20.9 more years to protest." The next time you pop an antibiotic to cure your bronchitis, or a pill to lower your blood pressure thank a scientist and a group of rats.

Ce commentaire vous a-t-il été utile ? Oui Non (Signaler ce commentaire)


Partagez votre opinion avec les autres clients: Créer votre propre commentaire
 
 
Rechercher uniquement sur les commentaires portant sur ce produit


Cherchez des articles semblables par catégorie

Chercher des articles semblables par sujet













c.-à-d., chaque book doit correspondre au sujet 1 ET au sujet 2 ET ...

Commentaires

Souhaitez-vous compléter ou améliorer les informations sur ce produit ? Ou faire modifier les images?

Votre historique récent

 (En savoir plus)

Après avoir visualisé des pages détaillées produit ou des résultats de recherche, regardez ici pour trouver une façon simple de poursuivre votre navigation sur des pages qui vous intéressent.