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Handbook of Aqueous Electrolyte Thermodynamics: Theory & Application
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Expertise in electrolyte systems has become increasingly important in traditional CPI operations, as well as in oil/gas exploration and production. This book is the source for predicting electrolyte systems behavior, an indispensable "do-it-yourself" guide, with a blueprint for formulating predictive mathematical electrolyte models, recommended tabular values to use in these models, and annotated bibliographies. The final chapter is a general recipe for formulating complete predictive models for electrolytes, along with a series of worked illustrative examples. It can serve as a useful research and application tool for the practicing process engineer, and as a textbook for the chemical engineering student.
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A book illustrating and explaining a series of strategems to keep squirrels from eating and ruining yards and gardens when more traditional tactics fail.
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Not Remotely Tremendous.......2006-01-11
I'll keep this review short and sweet, since the book isn't exactly the utmost in literary achievement ever produced. The book is decent, probably right on the 3 star mark given what it tries to do and what it does. The intention of the book is to, well, outwit squirrels - a silly notion given a day or 2 observing the little...um, natural friends. Wit isn't what makes the squirrel dangerous. It's the endless effort a squirrel will go through to get your food. The overall effort described here should probably be called, "Outenduring Squirrels," since that's what you will need to do.
Overall, the book is hit or miss with the advice it gives. Living in a neighborhood with approximately more squirrels than blades of grass, you tend to either pick up ways to stop them from getting to your feeders, or you stop feeding the birds. Or as some have done, you throw in the towel and get used to having your seed receptacles ravaged by these tree rats. The advice in this book is sometimes right, and sometimes off the mark. That opinion is based on copious amounts of personal experience.
I got this as a gag gift from my father-in-law, since he knows how much I hate these animals. It was entertaining enough, though at times his sense of humor wasn't exactly what I would call top notch. Other times it was downright irritating. So it goes. I don't think squirrel banter is going to be on prime time television any time soon. Until then, you'll have to make do with books like this, which are good enough but hardly knocking on the door of your local bookstore's best seller list.
Squirrels: More Dangerous Than Nuclear Weapons.......2005-11-22
After the squirrels took over my backyard, car, and washroom, I bought this book to figure out how to take back the mean streets from these evil rodents. Unluckily for me, however, they noticed it when they were reading my mail and now they're after me... I had to move to an unknown Eastern European country just to escape them. Hopefully they won't figure out the combination to my wall safe back home, get enough money to buy plane tickets, and follow me here... that would make them flying squirrels, I suppose. Who would have guessed that squirrels could chew through five metres of lead?
For Determined Bird Watchers.......2005-06-08
This book is a guide to keeping your bird feeder squirrel-free. Adler had a particularly pestiferous squirrel who found ways around every squirrel-barrier Adler could think of to protect his bird seed. The squirrel's notorious feats put Adler on the war-path. In writing this book, he is not only fighting that one squirrel, but all of squirrel-kind. If readers pull-off a successful squirrel battle because of ideas in this book, then Adler can declare victory.
Bird watchers, (or would-be bird watchers) are the intended audience for this book, so the book begins with some suggestions about how to attract birds, along with a list of suggested foods to offer and descriptive profiles of birds who commonly come to North American feeders. Adler then turns his attentions to squirrels and provides a supposedly thorough description of squirrels, their biology, and behavior. Next, he describes and compares common bird feeders according to how squirrel-proof they are. Following this are a list of anti-squirrel devices that can be added to a feeder, and a list of combative actions a bird-viewer can take to ward off squirrels. Adler concludes with "101 Cunning Stratagems" (an attempt at humor?), ideas for squirrel lovers, ideas for dealing with problem cats at feeders, and a list of resources for bird-watching and squirrel-fighting equipment.
It's hard to tell whether this book was intended to be humorous, or what. Certainly, the comparison of bird feeders is far too serious to be funny. (And unfortunately, the feeders are listed by brand-name, rather than by some grouping according to general type or shape.) Some of the "101 Cunning Stratagems" seem intended to be funny, but fall short of the goal. Overall, the entire book reads as if it could have been a decent magazine article, but Adler had to really work to come up with ideas enough to stretch his material to fill out an entire book. For instance, he fills out his list of 101 stratagems with a number of patent descriptions, which are neither funny nor descriptive enough to give you an idea how the devices being described actually work.
Even though he seemed desperate to add to his work count, Adler still left out some key information. Namely, he provides almost no information about different types of squirrels, and how their approaches to feeders differ. Adler lives in a city, where he apparently only sees gray squirrels, which is probably why he barely mentions any other types of squirrels. In our experience, red squirrels are much more aggressive and agile than the grays-with our large population of red hoodlums, grays wouldn't stand a chance in our neighborhood. We also see flying squirrels at our feeder, but they don't bother us since they only come out at night when the birds aren't in the feeder, and they don't seem to gobble as much seed as the reds. They sure can jump, though. Then there are the black squirrels, which are the big gorillas of the squirrel world. I've seen them in Toronto, and I've also heard they haunt Washington, D.C. after escaping from the National Zoo. Do they also make pests of themselves at feeders? Adler leaves us in the dark about these critters.
Adler interviews world-renowned squirrel expert Vaun Flyger in the chapter on squirrel biology, and Flyger assures him that the best way to outwit a squirrel is to treat them like chicken; i.e., use them in any recipe that calls for chicken. In other words, Flyger advocates the "final solution". Adler doesn't consider this approach seriously in this book (but speaking from experience, it works, and better than any squirrel bafflers. Once neighborhood squirrels get the idea you're out for blood, they quickly learn how not to eat from your feeder).
Squirrels are smarter than most humans.......2005-02-19
There are no "squirrel proof" feeders or methods. Most squirrels will figure out ways to get the food from a bird feeder that most humans would never figure out.
In fact, watching humans try all sorts of things they THINK will stop the squirrels, and then seeing the squirrels outsmart them always gets a laugh from me, because humans always think they are so much smarter than the "dumb animals"!
Here is the only thing you need to know, and the BIG SECRET to keep squirrels from breaking your bird feeders.
Put out some food for the squirrels too!
If you leave a pile of food for them, they will have no need to raid the bird feeder!
They like sunflower seeds, so just get a bag of all sunflower seeds, or mixed with corn, and everytime you fill up the bird feeder, put out some food for the squirrels too.
Sure, they like peanuts, but most of the year they are going to just bury those, and they will make a pile of peanuts dissapear faster than the same size pile of sunflower seeds, because they will sit and open each seed, and a pile of those will keep them busy for hours.
In fact, I find it is more of a problem keeping birds out of the squirrel's food, than it is keeping the squirrels out of the bird's food.
The birds prefer the seed on the ground than to having to deal with the feeders too.
The key is to put what each likes the most, in their respective feeders. Thus, when they have a choice, they will rather have what they like better, than to bother with the other stuff.
But if you let their pile of food go empty, then don't get mad when they turn to the bird feeder again.
Just having a regular feeding time everyday is good enough too. My squirrels all know when they are going to get their food, and don't bother anything else. The bird feeders never get busted and the birds get to enjoy thier feeders, while the squirrels enjoy their treats.
Squirrels have "nap time" around noon, so you don't really have to worry about them around that time of day. In case you wonder why you don't see so many squirrels around that time, and earlier and later in the day you see them.
Same thing if you have problems with animals ripping apart your trash. The solution is so simple, even some HUMANS have figured it out! Leave some tasty food scraps for the animals so they don't need to rip apart the trash bags! And don't throw away so much food in your trash, use your garbage disposal unit!
If you have some food you don't want, rather than throw it in the trash, put it outside somewhere for the animals, so they don't have to rip apart the trash bags to get to it. Meanwhile, with no smelly food in your trash bags, no animal will have any WANT to rip apart the bag in the first place!
Believe it or not, just as you can train your dog, all the squirrels in my neighborhood, know what they are allowed to take in my yard, and what they are not allowed.
In fact, one time, I was not able to meet one squirrel for his daily feeding, so I just put the snacks outside earlier so I wouldn't have to go out at that time. Well, when I looked out the window, the squirrel was sitting near the nuts and would not take any of them, she was just sitting there waiting for me. I went outside, and as soon as she saw me, she was happy and started eating. She figured to eat the food without my permission would have been stealing or something, so she waited until she knew it was ok to take the food.
Now every squirrel has a different personality, just like people do, so this doesn't happen with all squirrels, but some have more ethics and morals than others do, just like with people.
On the average, most squirrels are easier to deal with and better to get along with than most humans are on average.
But the more you try to figure ways to OUTSMART these animals, the more you will be defeated as they are a lot smarter than you are. The fact they can get into human designed "squirrel proof" bird feeders should PROVE that fact already.
Instead of having a war with them, why not just make friends and make a deal with them? They can have some treats of their own, so long as they don't bother the snacks for the birds.
Has been working fine without any problems for me for years.
I have several broken, chewed through and vandelized metal "squirrel proof" bird feeders in the garage that I keep to show to "newbies" from the days before I became more educated about wildlife and animals.
With bird feeders, your worst enemies are the sparrows! They just throw all the seed out of the feeders, emptying an entire feeder in only an hour or two, because they throw to the side all the seed they don't like, and most of it ends up on the ground. They don't just eat a bit, and then fly away like all the other birds do, they will stay at the feeder until it is completely empty, and will not let any of the nicer, more colorful birds NEAR the feeder.
Other birds will all get along with each other and eat together and share, but the sparrows are the worst of their race. They scare all the other birds away from the feeders, and empty them dry.
With most birds, you can have a feeder up for many days or weeks, but as soon as the gang of sparrows find them, they are empty every day.
Interesting no one ever tries to market a "sparrow proof" feeder or write any books on how to discourage THEM.
Unlike with squirrels, where you can give them their own feeders and food piles, the sparrows won't just take one. If they are eating at one feeder and other birds go to another feeder, the sparrow will go to that feeder and scare those birds away and eat from it.
Sparrows remind me a lot of humans sometimes.
Inadvertantly increased my appreciation for squirrels.......2001-11-27
I really enjoyed this extremely humorous book. After reading it, any failure on any birder's part to get rid of his sleek, well-fed squirrels is understandable. They're great athletes, motivated and social to boot.
It is great stocking stuffer for your squirrel-obsessed birder spouse or friends!
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Lewis & Clark: Explorers of Far West, Tattercoats, Singh Rahah & Cunning Lil Jackals, Middle Bear, Chips, Picnic Basket, Windy Wash Day & Other Poems, Go Fly a Kite, Salt Water Zoo, Cornelia's Jewels, Three Seeds, Let's Go to Iceland & Greenland
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An anthology containing: "Lewis and Clark: Explorers of the Far West"; "Tattercoats"; "Singh, Rajah and the Cunning Little Jackals"; "The Middle Bear"; "Chips, The Story of a Cocker Spaniel"; "The Picnic Basket"; "Windy Wash Day and Other Poems"; "Go Fly a Kite"; "Salt Water "Zoos"; "Cornelia's Jewels"; "Three Seeds" and "Let's Go to Iceland and Greenland".
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The Cunning Seeds
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Outwitting Squirrels: 101 Cunning Strategems to Reduce Dramatically the Egregious Misappropriation of Seed from Your Birdfeeder by Squirrels
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Computer simulation has become a basic tool in many branches of physics such as statistical physics, particle physics, or materials science. The application of efficient algorithms is at least as important as good hardware in large-scale computation. This volume contains didactic lectures on such techniques based on physical insight. The emphasis is on Monte Carlo methods (introduction, cluster algorithms, reweighting and multihistogram techniques, umbrella sampling), efficient data analysis and optimization methods, but aspects of supercomputing, the solution of stochastic differential equations, and molecular dynamics are also discussed. The book addresses graduate students and researchers in theoretical and computational physics.
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Patricia Cornwell's legendary crime fiction creation, Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, has logged a host of fans among mystery readers and, within the bounds of her fictional world, an equally impressive tally of individuals intent on causing her grievous physical or psychological harm.
The 11th Scarpetta novel, The Last Precinct, doesn't add any new names to the second roster. Instead, in a sweeping narrative gesture toward retrospection (less-than-fervent fans might whisper "or stagnation"), the novel depends largely on ground already covered in its predecessors, Black Notice and, to a lesser extent, Point of Origin. All the familiar faces--friend and foe--are here: police captain Marino, Kay's niece Lucy, the so-called Werewolf murderer, and (in memoriam) Kay's lover Benton Wesley and his killer, Carrie Grethen. Kay, who nearly killed the Werewolf in self-defense as Black Notice came to a close, now finds herself the target of a corrupt police investigation that will dredge her darkest secrets from the deepest corners of her past.
Torn between a desire to clear her name and the instinct of a wounded animal to turn against even its would-be rescuers, Kay sifts through the forensic evidence that seems to link Chandonne to other horrific events in her past, up to and including Wesley's murder. Physical analysis, however, will not be enough to right her up-ended world. Instead, Kay must rely on the strategic support of her niece, cofounder of the Last Precinct (an odd, ill-defined organization that is, in the words of its motto, "where you go when there is nowhere left"), and on her willingness to examine her own fears, misconceptions, and anything-but-altruistic motives. The most important setting in this novel is not the morgue--it's the living room where Kay's therapist forces her to address (you guessed it) "unresolved issues."
The novel's focus on Kay's emotional evolution does not, unfortunately, mask the leaps of illogic that pepper the plot's murky stew. More disturbing than these occasional lapses, however, is the feeling that Cornwell has written herself into a corner. The Scarpetta of The Last Precinct is a far cry from the irritably independent woman of previous books. Her often over-inflated musings are more tiresome than tantalizing. Cornwell's impressive track record makes this excursion a bit disappointing, but that same record means that loyal fans will race to acquire the book anyway and that the odds of her returning to her usual stellar form next time are (hurrah!) favorable. --Kelly Flynn
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Now Patricia Cornwell brings her millions of readers a novel concerning crimes with roots in a murder from the distant past. When Kay Scarpetta is mandated to investigate the 400 year-old violent death of one of America's first settlers at Jamestown, Virginia, it seems like the perfect match: modern technology's savviest avatar versus an age-old crime. Kay's involvement in the case attracts headlines, and more-the unwelcome ire of a person or persons unknown.
Kay and those closest to her soon find themselves the targets of vicious hate crimes that are clearly inspired by her connection to the archaeological excavation. At first more nuisance than assault, the nature of the attacks quickly escalates to violence. Worse still, those sworn to protect prove to be the enemy, forcing Scarpetta, her niece Lucy, and detective Peter Marino to take matters into their won hands- torquing the rule of law and changing their lives forever. In a case ranging from an 18th-century murder to mortal risk in present day,
The Last Precinct pits Kay Scarpetta against a rogue enemy who will stop at nothing to stop her.
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The new era of Scarpetta begins. In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel, Patricia Cornwell takes her readers deeper into Kay Scarpetta's heart and soul than ever before. Thwarting an attack by a suspected serial killer puts Virginia's Chief Medial Examiner Kay Scarpetta in the harsh glare of the spotlight. As her personal and professional lives come under suspicion, she discovers that the so-called Werewolf murders may have extended to New York City and into the darkest corners of her past. A formidable prosecutor, a female assistant district attorney from New York, is brought into the case and Scarpetta must struggle to make what she knows to be the truth prevail against mounting and unnerving evidence to the contrary. Tested in every way, she turns inward to ask, Where do you go when there is nowhere left?
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The LAst Precinct.......2007-08-11
Oh, what a life Scarpetta does lead! And to think that there's a REAL Scarpetta out there solving crimes just intrigues you more. Great story!
The Last Precinct.......2007-07-05
I was very happy with this purchase. It came right on time and in perfect condition just as they said it would. I love reading all of Patricia Cornwell's books. I have collected all but one and about to order it now. I have read them all and want to start over. I hope she releases a new one soon. Also love the 2 cookbooks and stories they share. Thanks again and I will continue doing business with Amazon.
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The Last Precinct.......2007-03-08
One of Patricia Cornwell's best. Loved the whole book. Could not put it down.
It was okay - entertaining, human Scarpetta, introduces Berger.......2007-02-02
Here Scarpetta becomes a little more human when her boss attempts to indict her for murder. However, that indictment concept is just not believable if you've met her increasingly impossibly impeccable self through the prior books. No one in their right mind would do that to perfect Kay.
You always know she is going to get off the hook, therefore the entertainment factor takes over. I found the regular cast of characters a bit worn out and caricatures of their formerly interesting selves. (I swear they used to have lives outside of their jobs, and were actually sometimes unpredictable) The best thing about this book is that it leaves you wanting to know more about Jaime Berger, the attorney from NY. Berger reminds me of Scarpetta's character in Cornwell's earlier books - refreshing.
Other than the suspense between Berger and Scarpetta, I thought the plot was impossibly and intricately conspiratorial and too tidy to be believable. However, the book is entertaining due to the intracacies, of course the forensics, Cornwell's gift of writing, and the introduction of Berger.
The reason I read this to begin with was my own attachment to Scarpetta through Cornwell's earlier works and my knowledge that Cornwell is a terrific writer. Perhaps a new series starring Berger would be nice :) Her character is the main reason I will read the sequel. The other reason is that Cornwell can make anything entertaining. (Who else could get a 3 star rating using an over the top plot and tired, predictable characters?)
The ultimate suspence but the ending... ever so disappointing..........2006-10-30
It seems to me that everything possible has been said about this book. I do want to add something which is this: It took me quite some persistance to get through the beginning (e.i. the first 1/3 part) of the book but I was determined, and just knew it had to get better SOMEWHERE. It did. The middle part truly was one of the best suspence ever. But I got a strong feeling that the whole story would go out like a night candle and lo and behold, it did.
And that was the biggest disappointment EVER. There, I've said it.
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Kay Scarpetta Series: Postmortem, Body of Evidence, All That Remains, Cruel and Unusual, The Body Farm, From Potter's Field, Cause of Death, Unnatural Exposure, Point of Origin, Black Notice, The Last Precinct, Blow Fly, Trace, Predator (Set of 14)
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Kay Scarpetta Series, Books 1 - 14; Postmortem, Body of Evidence, All That Remains, Cruel and Unusual, The Body Farm, From Potter's Field, Cause of Death, Unnatural Exposure, Point of Origin, Black Notice, The Last Precinct, Blow Fly, Trace, Predator
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Penzler Pick, January 2000: When it comes to the novels of big-city cop life revolving around a single station house's daily dramas, Ed McBain wrote the book--50 of them, in fact. And whatever one thinks of the virtues of NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues, or even Law and Order, there's the undeniable truth that McBain was there first, with his wonderfully reimagined New York. (Fans know that Isola is the stand-in for the borough of Manhattan, Riverhead for the Bronx, Majesta for Queens, Calm's Point for Brooklyn, and Bethtown for Staten Island.)
Here, as one hopes and expects, a body turns up within the opening pages. And also, as is often the case, Detective Steve Carella is there to spar with the medical examiner.
But there are other bodies and other police personnel in a story that takes the typical McBain route--no short cuts--that amounts to a crook's tour of the city he loves. With a cast of characters that ranges from socialites to hookers, The Last Dance takes in theater world chicanery, police brutality, and a pizza-joint massacre.
Ed McBain, also known as Evan Hunter, is the only American ever to have won the British Crimewriters Association's Diamond Dagger; he is a grand master of the Mystery Writers of America; his books have sold over a hundred million copies around the world; and he wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, the Matthew Hope series of mystery novels with fairy tale and nursery rhyme titles (Rumpelstiltskin, Goldilocks, etc.), as well as the classic The Blackboard Jungle.
Celebrating the publication of the 50th novel in a series that stays amazingly fresh and incredibly readable is no small thing. This much-loved and seminal writer is a national treasure. If you're a mystery reader, you've undoubtedly read Ed McBain. If you haven't read one for a while, try this one. It's so good it will immediately send you scurrying back for the ones you missed. --Otto Penzler
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THE CELEBRATED FIFTIETH NOVEL OF THE 87TH PRECINCT
The hanging death of a nondescript old man in a shabby little apartment in a meager section of the 87th Precinct is nothing much in this city, especially to detectives Carella and Meyer. But everyone has a story, and this old man's story stood to make some people a lot of money. His story takes Carella, Meyer, Brown, and Weeks on a search through seedy strip clubs and to the bright lights of the theater district. There they discover an upcoming musical with ties to a mysterious drug -- and a killer who stays until the last dance.
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In this city, you can get anything done for a price. If you want someone's eyeglasses smashed, it'll cost you a subway token. You want his fingernails pulled out? His legs broken? You want him more seriously injured? You want him hurt so he's an invalid his whole life? You want him skinned, you want him burned, you want him -- don't even mention it in a whisper -- killed? It can be done. Let me talk to someone. It can be done. The hanging death of a nondescript old man in a shabby little apartment in a meager section of the 87th Precinct was nothing much in this city, especially to detectives Carella and Meyer. But everyone has a story, and this old man's story stood to make some people a lot of money. His story takes Carella, Meyer, Brown, and Weeks on a search through Isola's seedy strip clubs and to the bright lights of the theater district. There they discover an upcoming musical with ties to a mysterious drug and a killer who stays until the last dance. The Last Dance is Ed McBain's fiftieth novel of the 87th Precinct and certainly one of his best. The series began in 1956 with Cop Hater and proves him to be the man who has been called "so good he should be arrested".
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Superbly Entertaining.......2006-07-28
I picked up The Last Dance expecting a detective story and was pleasantly surprised to find a unique take on police procedural. The characters were interesting, the dialog crisp and hilarious. McBain could pen a phrase like no one I've ever read. I found the `stream of consciousness' style of dialog hilarious. Some parts were so funny, I read over it again (like a favorite song you replay over and over when no one else is around). Although all police investigations don't end with a bang, I wanted a bigger ending. However, the characters alone are enough to make me want to check out other books in this series.
RIP Ed McBain.......2006-06-30
He was my favorite author and I believe that anything he has written should be required reading for any fan of mysteries. He had a comic flair and a way with words that engages the reader immediately. Don't miss!
More than a 3 but not quite a 4.......2004-08-28
This book was fast reading and entertaining, yet I felt there were too many characters and too many things happening. Towards the end when another new character was introduced, it was too much. I didn't think it wrapped up well, either.
I will try another on of his books, but he'll have to put a little more substance in his writing for me to become a fan.
Everything falls into place nicely.......2004-06-09
THE LAST DANCE does a nice job of combining solid detective work with the occasional bit of chance to form a nicely constructed 87th precinct novel. All the players are here, including the man we love to hate Ollie Weeks, and the murder here is complicated by a series of events that are indirectly related, yet all lead to the eventual solution. A suicide that transforms into a homicide which ties into a play revival; only McBain can make something seemingly so far fetched work so well. For the 50th book in a series, this one definitely is spry for its age and McBain does his usual fine job making it all work.
Better and better.......2004-03-02
This Ed McBain 87th Precinct book is proof that these stories
just get better and better.
The characters are complex and very, very human, and all the
more believeable for it.
An old man is found dead in mysterious circumstances, but there
is no motive for his death, and the case stagnates until a very
nice motive suddenly appears. The man was sitting on literary
rights to a play about to be staged, and he was refusing to
sell the rights. And a lot of people wanted that play to go
and be staged; there was a lot of money at stake.
Then one of Steve's favorite informers is shot to death in a
pizza place, when the informer is talking to Steve and about to
help him on a case. The audacity of that killing upsets the police, and the hunt begins in earnest.
Plus, Fat Ollie gets involved and is determined to help the
detectives of the 87th, whether they want it or not.
There is a lot of action here, and the pace is fast and strong.
A solid and good police-procedural entry.
Customer Reviews:
The most confusing plot ever.......2002-04-05
I'm not familiar with the other works by this author and maybe that's one of the reasons I found this book so confusing, but the fact remains that, even as an avid reader of courtroom/legal novels, I found it hard to keep track of all the characters and subplots that seems to be introduced randomly. The author starts by making you believe that the focus of the story is the relantionsip between the female chief medical examiner and the genetical freak who has killed a number of women and tried to do the same to the doctor. But from that point on dozens of relantionships are introduced with very little or no explanation at all. Maybe the details are in other books but I beleive that one should be able to read any book and be presented with at least the basic facts about all the characters. Another weak spot is the ending. After dragging the narrative through many pages of excruciatingly detailed descriptions of places, furniture and even cars, the author brings it all to an abrupt end in four or five short pages. It seemed to me that even the author herself couldn'd wait to get rid of the book. One last comment: please, enough of female lawyers/detectives/policewomen and other law enforcement people who are unmarried and have a nephew as their only significant family member. This must be the fourth or fifth book I read (none of them by this author) that relies on this situation. Wifes and mothers can make good characters too !
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seven mmpb books. 7 Titles By Patricia Cornwell Kay Scarpetta Series (8-14) : 8 Unnatural Exposure 9 Point of Origin 10 Black Notice 11 Last Precinct 12 Blow Fly 13 Trace 14 Predator
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