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Manufacturer: St. Martin's Minotaur
Author: J. S. Borthwick
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Foiled Again (Sarah Deane Mysteries) Description
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780312366551
ISBN: 0312366558
Label: St. Martin's Minotaur
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Minotaur
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 368
Publication Date: 2007-02-06
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Product Release Date: 2007-02-06
Studio: St. Martin's Minotaur
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780312366551
ISBN: 0312366558
Label: St. Martin's Minotaur
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Minotaur
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 368
Publication Date: 2007-02-06
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Product Release Date: 2007-02-06
Studio: St. Martin's Minotaur
Editorial Review of Foiled Again (Sarah Deane Mysteries)
The Drama School at Bowmouth College is staging its annual Halloween masquerade, known for being a little unusual. This year it’s Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet with a twist---Romiette and Julio instead. English professor and sometime amateur sleuth Sarah Deane has been recruited to assist backstage with the complicated costume changes.
Drama students are known for being mischievous and high-strung, but this year things are a little more serious: During rehearsals a couple of the student actors pass the time by taking whacks at each other with the stage props, and their horseplay leaves Todd Mancuso, the brilliant actor playing Mercutio, wounded. And when Sarah stumbles upon a badly injured student hidden away in a stockroom on Halloween night, events take a turn for the worse. By the time the production is finally staged, a member of the faculty has been badly injured and a student has been killed. Talk about drama!
Sarah gets involved, of course, to sort out a mess that involves academic politics, angry actors, and student activities gone horribly wrong.
Drama students are known for being mischievous and high-strung, but this year things are a little more serious: During rehearsals a couple of the student actors pass the time by taking whacks at each other with the stage props, and their horseplay leaves Todd Mancuso, the brilliant actor playing Mercutio, wounded. And when Sarah stumbles upon a badly injured student hidden away in a stockroom on Halloween night, events take a turn for the worse. By the time the production is finally staged, a member of the faculty has been badly injured and a student has been killed. Talk about drama!
Sarah gets involved, of course, to sort out a mess that involves academic politics, angry actors, and student activities gone horribly wrong.
Customer Reviews of Foiled Again (Sarah Deane Mysteries)
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Unsatisfactory
Review: yes it was a "cozy" mystery with a slow pace and great character development, but i kept waiting for some startling conclusion, some insight, and was disappointed. maybe i missed something but there were 'way too many unanswered questions by the end of the book. if you're not a regular mystery reader you may enjoy this book--the characters are appealing and believeable--but the mystery part is weak.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Foiled Again
Review: I've been a fan of J.S. Borthwick's writing for years, but I was very disappointed in this book. The plot is looser and less believable than in her other books. I enjoy gentle mysteries, so I might have been willing to go along with this less inspired and rivetting plot, had it not been for all of the typos. Occasional errors can be overlooked, but there were so many in this edition that it was truly distracting. Does no one edit before publication? Perhaps someone will proofread before the paperback edition comes out. It wouldn't make up for a less tightly written narrative, but at least it might let the reader move more smoothly through the book and, perhaps, be more likely to overlook the deeper flaws.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: "a hit, a very palpable hit"
Review: At Maine's Bowmouth College, the Drama School Chair Vera Pruczak is producing a gender bending version of Romeo and Juliet, Romiette and Julio. Vera enjoys sticking it to the prim and proper English Department Chair Danton McGraw, which this production does as he holds Shakespeare sacred. However, this time Vera also annoys the local residents who feel she is going too far with poetic license.
As Vera and Danton argue, English Professor Sarah Deane tries to bring a truce between her friend and her boss. During rehearsal talented Todd Mancuso is beaten up and his replacement as Mercutio Draco Malfoy, is almost killed. However, the show proves a success in Sarah's mind because no one else was hurt though anger simmered near the surface. Sarah soon knows her assessment was wrong when the curtain closes because Grover Blaine is dead backstage. Ignoring Maine State Police Sergeant George Fitts plea to stay out of the investigation, as she has done with other homicides, Sarah investigates the murder investigation
Once again, Sarah proves the world's a stage where a murder investigation becomes the prime show. The story line provides readers with a glimpse at the rivalries often acrimonious amidst the "gentle" academia. As the Bowmouth drama school prepares for its next production, perhaps of Hamletta, Princess of Denmark, FOILED AGAIN is as the opening quote from Shakespeare says "a hit, a very palpable hit"
Harriet Klausner
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: 13th Sarah Deane mystery
Review: Bowmouth College's new play is a unique twist on Romeo and Juliet. They're staging a production of "Romiette and Julio," and things are not going well. The off-stage drama mounts until two female drama students attack Todd Mancuso, the actor who plays Mercutio in the production.
Sarah Deane is an English professor at Bowmouth where department tension (between English Department head, Danton McGraw and the Drama School head, Vera Pruczak) escalates with far-reaching consequences. The play proceeds, but following the performance Sarah discovers an injured faculty member, and then a student is found dead.
As usual, Sarah ignores all warning about not getting involved and is determined to find out 'who done it.'
Foiled Again is J.S. Borthwick's thirteenth Sarah Deane mystery and my first reading of her books. I've become a fan and will search out her previous novels.
The characters are quirky and interesting, the academic politics are delicious and the plot takes you for a ride and you don't want it to end. This is a wonderful book for those lazy afternoons where you just want a good read.
Armchair Interviews says: Check out Foiled Again, you'll become a fan.
Review Summary: Unsatisfactory
Review: yes it was a "cozy" mystery with a slow pace and great character development, but i kept waiting for some startling conclusion, some insight, and was disappointed. maybe i missed something but there were 'way too many unanswered questions by the end of the book. if you're not a regular mystery reader you may enjoy this book--the characters are appealing and believeable--but the mystery part is weak.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Foiled Again
Review: I've been a fan of J.S. Borthwick's writing for years, but I was very disappointed in this book. The plot is looser and less believable than in her other books. I enjoy gentle mysteries, so I might have been willing to go along with this less inspired and rivetting plot, had it not been for all of the typos. Occasional errors can be overlooked, but there were so many in this edition that it was truly distracting. Does no one edit before publication? Perhaps someone will proofread before the paperback edition comes out. It wouldn't make up for a less tightly written narrative, but at least it might let the reader move more smoothly through the book and, perhaps, be more likely to overlook the deeper flaws.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: "a hit, a very palpable hit"
Review: At Maine's Bowmouth College, the Drama School Chair Vera Pruczak is producing a gender bending version of Romeo and Juliet, Romiette and Julio. Vera enjoys sticking it to the prim and proper English Department Chair Danton McGraw, which this production does as he holds Shakespeare sacred. However, this time Vera also annoys the local residents who feel she is going too far with poetic license.
As Vera and Danton argue, English Professor Sarah Deane tries to bring a truce between her friend and her boss. During rehearsal talented Todd Mancuso is beaten up and his replacement as Mercutio Draco Malfoy, is almost killed. However, the show proves a success in Sarah's mind because no one else was hurt though anger simmered near the surface. Sarah soon knows her assessment was wrong when the curtain closes because Grover Blaine is dead backstage. Ignoring Maine State Police Sergeant George Fitts plea to stay out of the investigation, as she has done with other homicides, Sarah investigates the murder investigation
Once again, Sarah proves the world's a stage where a murder investigation becomes the prime show. The story line provides readers with a glimpse at the rivalries often acrimonious amidst the "gentle" academia. As the Bowmouth drama school prepares for its next production, perhaps of Hamletta, Princess of Denmark, FOILED AGAIN is as the opening quote from Shakespeare says "a hit, a very palpable hit"
Harriet Klausner
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: 13th Sarah Deane mystery
Review: Bowmouth College's new play is a unique twist on Romeo and Juliet. They're staging a production of "Romiette and Julio," and things are not going well. The off-stage drama mounts until two female drama students attack Todd Mancuso, the actor who plays Mercutio in the production.
Sarah Deane is an English professor at Bowmouth where department tension (between English Department head, Danton McGraw and the Drama School head, Vera Pruczak) escalates with far-reaching consequences. The play proceeds, but following the performance Sarah discovers an injured faculty member, and then a student is found dead.
As usual, Sarah ignores all warning about not getting involved and is determined to find out 'who done it.'
Foiled Again is J.S. Borthwick's thirteenth Sarah Deane mystery and my first reading of her books. I've become a fan and will search out her previous novels.
The characters are quirky and interesting, the academic politics are delicious and the plot takes you for a ride and you don't want it to end. This is a wonderful book for those lazy afternoons where you just want a good read.
Armchair Interviews says: Check out Foiled Again, you'll become a fan.