Wednesday, February 23, 2005
The Grave Maurice by Martha Grimes
I got The Grave Maurice for a lovely $1.82 at the thrift store. In hardback! I probably would have paid $5-10 but after reading it I don't think it was worth the cover cost of $25.95.
The Grave Maurice has the lovable Melrose Plant listening in to gossip in a pub, visiting Inspector Jury in the hospital and passing on that gossip, and dabbling in horse ownership. Props are given to Dick Francis as master of horse racing mystery (yay!).
Melrose has stumbled onto a mystery involving the missing daughter of Richard's doctor, a Premarin sweatshop involving stolen mares, and the usual cast of quirky villagers.
The description of the mares' situation is meant to discombobulate as one character says that surely if the women using Premarin jnew how it was manufactured they would immediately stop. There is mention of repeated rape of a young girl by an older man, and a heartbreaking death.
The Grave Maurice has the lovable Melrose Plant listening in to gossip in a pub, visiting Inspector Jury in the hospital and passing on that gossip, and dabbling in horse ownership. Props are given to Dick Francis as master of horse racing mystery (yay!).
Melrose has stumbled onto a mystery involving the missing daughter of Richard's doctor, a Premarin sweatshop involving stolen mares, and the usual cast of quirky villagers.
The description of the mares' situation is meant to discombobulate as one character says that surely if the women using Premarin jnew how it was manufactured they would immediately stop. There is mention of repeated rape of a young girl by an older man, and a heartbreaking death.
# posted by JJ @ 2:46 PM 
