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Title: Claws and Effect by RITA MAE BROWN ISBN: 0-553-58090-6 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 29 January, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.52 (21 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Less Frothy but Still Enjoyable
Comment: Like all of Rita Mae Brown's "Mrs. Murphy" series, CLAWS AND EFFECT reintroduces us to the residents of tiny Crozet, Virginia, a community of small-town archetypes in which the animal friends of various residents occasionally help their humans solve a murder in their midst. And this time the murder is a particularly bloody one: a member of the hospital staff is found with his throat cut ear to ear in the hospital boiler room. As usual, the mystrey entices Postmistress Mary "Harry" Harristeen--and when her own safety is threatened, her two cats (Mrs. Murphy and Pewter) and dog (Tee-Tucker) come to the rescue by investigating the crime for themselves.
The Mrs. Murphy series is light reading, of course, and taking it too seriously undermines the fun. As usual, the great attraction here is not the plot--for Brown has never really bothered to work out the tightly puzzle prized by hard-core mystery fans--but the way in which the thing is written: frothy, funny, and amusing. Unfortunately, CLAWS AND EFFECT has little of the froth we usually expect, and it may be that Brown has begun to tire of her creation, but it still makes for an entertaining way to pass an evening. Fans will enjoy it.
Rating: 1
Summary: Don't bother picking this one up.
Comment: Reading this book, I was so aghast at the awful writing that I hardly remember what the plot was about. The only reason I forced myself to finish was because I had paid money for the book. I've learned two important lessons: First, next time I find a book at the used book store which looks "new" I'll know its because the book was so bad the previous owner didn't read it. And second, no more Rita Mae Brown! Anybody who was a fan of her older works should look else where.
Rating: 1
Summary: Very disappointing
Comment: I've read and loved the Sneaky Pie mysteries for years, but had fallen 2 books behind when I picked up Pawing Through the Past and Claws and Effect. Now, I realize I'm in a specialized area and am nitpicking this book because of my personal experiences, but this book really bugged me. Through 7 books we've been exposed to "tiny" Crozet, Virginia (in one book, its population was given as 1700 people). But here we are supposed to believe it has a world-class teaching hospital which has a pediatric intensive care unit (Tussie Logan at one point refers to a child from Guatemala she's taking care of), specialists like orthopedic surgeons (Buxton, "one of the leading knee specialists in the country"!)and worst, A TRANSPLANT CENTER!!! I work in a hospital in a city of 500,000 people, and none of our 5 hospitals has a transplant center (there's only one in the state, in the capital city). I came from a city of 20,000 which has a 25-bed hospital, with a usual census of 5-10 patients! Harry speculates that 3 people with healthy organs die per week at Crozet Hospital (remember, a town of 1700 people). It just goes on and on!
I am disappointed that Ms. Brown has such a low opinion of her readers (or that she doesn't feel it's necessary to at least make these mysteries minimally realistic because they're making her millions).
If you need to read this one to complete the series, do it. If you're starting here, it's obvious to me Ms. Brown is just grinding these stories out because she has a successful franchise. Go back and read the first books, they're fun and, while not totally believable, at least not ludicrous. We'll see how Catch as Cat Can goes... I may have to give them up.
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Title: Pawing Through the Past by Rita Mae Brown ISBN: 0553580256 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 30 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Catch As Cat Can by Rita Mae Brown, Sneaky Pie Brown ISBN: 0553580280 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Cat on the Scent by Rita Mae Brown ISBN: 0553575414 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Murder, She Meowed by Rita Mae Brown ISBN: 0553572377 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Murder on the Prowl by Rita Mae Brown ISBN: 0553575406 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 02 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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