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Death Under the Dryer (Five Star First Edition Mystery) (Five Star Mystery Series) (Five Star Mystery Series)
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Author: Simon Brett
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Death Under the Dryer (Five Star First Edition Mystery) (Five Star Mystery Series) (Five Star Mystery Series) Description
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9781594146312
ISBN: 1594146314
Label: Five Star
Manufacturer: Five Star
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 361
Publication Date: 2007-08-15
Publisher: Five Star
Studio: Five Star
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9781594146312
ISBN: 1594146314
Label: Five Star
Manufacturer: Five Star
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 361
Publication Date: 2007-08-15
Publisher: Five Star
Studio: Five Star
Editorial Review of Death Under the Dryer (Five Star First Edition Mystery) (Five Star Mystery Series) (Five Star Mystery Series)
Customer Reviews of Death Under the Dryer (Five Star First Edition Mystery) (Five Star Mystery Series) (Five Star Mystery Series)
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Death Under the Dryer
Review: This was not Simon Brett at his best. Character development was not as strong nor was the plot. The mystery was week and I missed the development of a greater insight into Jude and Carol. I am a fan of this duo and want more about them in each book as he has done before.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Better to start at the beginning of the series
Review: As soon as I realized this book was well into the series of Fetherington mysteries, I should have set it down and gone to the beginning. I'm sure my appreciation of the book was affected by my decision to go ahead and read it out of order.
The book is very character driven -- not only by the two main characters but by all the people with whom they interact. As an American who has not read very many British mysteries, I am already at a disadvantage. The social satire mentioned by other reviewers was quite over my head. Add to that what I missed in the development of Carole's and Jude's characters over the life of the series and I was doubly in the dark.
Even so, I would have hoped the author could have fleshed out a little more of the relationship between the two and why they decided to get involved. Readers come late to series all the time and authors need to find the balance between boring their faithful readers with too much repetition and giving new readers enough to make the characters come alive for them.
Carole is such a prickly & private person and Jude is more laid back and New Age-y; it was difficult to see them as friends. And they didn't get inside my head so that I cared whether they solved the mystery or not. Because of this, I doubt I will go back to the beginning and read the series in the order it was written.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Brett on Top Form
Review: Here we are with another instalment of the Carole and Jude adventures. These two ladies while away their "quiet" retirement on the south coast of England solving murder mysteries.
I think the great strength of this series is the interaction between the stuffy, formal, ex civil servant Carole and the free spirited, former model, amongst other things, Jude. They make quite a team.
Here with another beautifully crafted adventure lifting the lid on the hair and beauty salon world. And what a wonderful, yet eccentric range of characters we meet: people like The Locke family, who seem to live in a role playing game of their own design, a retired songwriter and his bossy wife and the hairdressers themselves. Just who would have a motive to murder the young assistant?
As usual Carole and Jude have to use their own skills and talents to solve the mystery. There are lots of lovely interactions with suspects. Jude is at her flirtatious best and Carole is a no nonsense as ever.
A great way to while away a winter evening enjoying the gentle yet sharp humour of Simon Brett.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Great narration
Review: In Fethering, England Carole Seddon decides she needs a bit cut off from her hair so she enters Connie's Clip Joint in spite of her trepidations about allowing a local to come near her ears with a scissor. However, she takes a chance because Carole just wants a bit of a snip not a change in her style. To her regret, she finds the corpse of clip joint employee Kyra strangled by a garrote in the salon's back room with evidence that a sexual encounter occurred also.
Thus the Littlehampton police station major crime detectives assume Kyra's kept secret boyfriend (until now), Nathan killed her. Carole assumes that the cops she met are boobs so they need her London based Home office expert assistance on the investigation. She and her reluctant partner Jude make inquiries that annoy the local police as she keeps interfering with their inquiry.
The police procedural is well written and cleverly designed as is the private investigation by Carole and Jude. However, what makes Simon Brett's whodunit so much fun is the amusing dysfunctional relationship between the haughty know it all Carole and the Fethering locals. Twelve championship rounds later Carole has been snipped, nipped and dipped so that she has become localized. Fans will appreciate the latest Fethering caper (see THE BODY ON THE BEACH and THE STABBING IN THE STABLES).
Harriet Klausner
Review Summary: Death Under the Dryer
Review: This was not Simon Brett at his best. Character development was not as strong nor was the plot. The mystery was week and I missed the development of a greater insight into Jude and Carol. I am a fan of this duo and want more about them in each book as he has done before.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Better to start at the beginning of the series
Review: As soon as I realized this book was well into the series of Fetherington mysteries, I should have set it down and gone to the beginning. I'm sure my appreciation of the book was affected by my decision to go ahead and read it out of order.
The book is very character driven -- not only by the two main characters but by all the people with whom they interact. As an American who has not read very many British mysteries, I am already at a disadvantage. The social satire mentioned by other reviewers was quite over my head. Add to that what I missed in the development of Carole's and Jude's characters over the life of the series and I was doubly in the dark.
Even so, I would have hoped the author could have fleshed out a little more of the relationship between the two and why they decided to get involved. Readers come late to series all the time and authors need to find the balance between boring their faithful readers with too much repetition and giving new readers enough to make the characters come alive for them.
Carole is such a prickly & private person and Jude is more laid back and New Age-y; it was difficult to see them as friends. And they didn't get inside my head so that I cared whether they solved the mystery or not. Because of this, I doubt I will go back to the beginning and read the series in the order it was written.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Brett on Top Form
Review: Here we are with another instalment of the Carole and Jude adventures. These two ladies while away their "quiet" retirement on the south coast of England solving murder mysteries.
I think the great strength of this series is the interaction between the stuffy, formal, ex civil servant Carole and the free spirited, former model, amongst other things, Jude. They make quite a team.
Here with another beautifully crafted adventure lifting the lid on the hair and beauty salon world. And what a wonderful, yet eccentric range of characters we meet: people like The Locke family, who seem to live in a role playing game of their own design, a retired songwriter and his bossy wife and the hairdressers themselves. Just who would have a motive to murder the young assistant?
As usual Carole and Jude have to use their own skills and talents to solve the mystery. There are lots of lovely interactions with suspects. Jude is at her flirtatious best and Carole is a no nonsense as ever.
A great way to while away a winter evening enjoying the gentle yet sharp humour of Simon Brett.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Great narration
Review: In Fethering, England Carole Seddon decides she needs a bit cut off from her hair so she enters Connie's Clip Joint in spite of her trepidations about allowing a local to come near her ears with a scissor. However, she takes a chance because Carole just wants a bit of a snip not a change in her style. To her regret, she finds the corpse of clip joint employee Kyra strangled by a garrote in the salon's back room with evidence that a sexual encounter occurred also.
Thus the Littlehampton police station major crime detectives assume Kyra's kept secret boyfriend (until now), Nathan killed her. Carole assumes that the cops she met are boobs so they need her London based Home office expert assistance on the investigation. She and her reluctant partner Jude make inquiries that annoy the local police as she keeps interfering with their inquiry.
The police procedural is well written and cleverly designed as is the private investigation by Carole and Jude. However, what makes Simon Brett's whodunit so much fun is the amusing dysfunctional relationship between the haughty know it all Carole and the Fethering locals. Twelve championship rounds later Carole has been snipped, nipped and dipped so that she has become localized. Fans will appreciate the latest Fethering caper (see THE BODY ON THE BEACH and THE STABBING IN THE STABLES).
Harriet Klausner