Biggie and the Meddlesome Mailman [Audio Cassette]

Nancy Bell (Author), Jeff Woodman (Narrator)

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• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: RecordedBooks (2006)
• ISBN-10: 1419354183
• ISBN-13: 978-1419354182
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A cute read in a cozy series, November 21, 1999

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Biggie and the Meddlesome Mailman (Hardcover)

Job's Crossing, Texas is a small town where everyone knows one another and secrets are hard to keep. However, most residents prefer that their neighbors mind their own business. Letter carrier Luther Abernathy prefers gossip. He goes out of his way to attain information on people and disseminates his findings to anyone he meets.

However, Luther must have found one secret that its owner wanted kept buried because he is found dead by Biggie Weatherford and her grandson J.R. in what appears to be a car accident. However, Biggie and J.R. know that Luther was murdered because the killing blow to his head came from behind not in front as it would have in a vehicle crash. Biggie has a lot on her plate and has no time to investigate Luther's death. Still, whichever item she works on, somehow she and J.R. keep ending up in the middle of a murder investigation.

BIGGIE AND THE MEDDLESOME MAILMAN is a wonderful entry in a warm series. The who-done-it is obvious, but retains a cozy charm to it thanks in part due to the strong showing of the secondary players coming off the bench to propel the tale forward. Biggie and the narrating J.R. are a fabulous amateur sleuth duo whose milieu seems to always be a homicide investigation no matter how hard they try otherwise. Nancy Bell provides her audience with a comical look at small town Texas that retains the freshness of the previous three entries.

Harriet Klausner

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Welcome to the Time Warp, July 22, 2003

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Mamalinde "mamalinde" (Dallas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Biggie and the Meddlesome Mailman (Hardcover)

I am still not sure exactly WHY I am reading these books. No stranger to the time warp of East Texas, these books capture some of that essence but are really just "too" homespun sometimes. Grandmother Biggie (about as big as a minute) is raising grandson J.R. with the help of Willa May (cook/voodoo priestess) and her husband Rosebud (handyman and teller of tall tales). In this installment, the noisy mailman sticks his nose into danger on a number of counts and before the story ends another character will bite the dust too. Corrupt politicians, a mystery pitcher, hate driven militia (roughly based on the Republic of Texas), and someone who is certainly something quite different from what it seems. The story travels all over the place with plenty of stops for down home eating, detecting, and some tension building. Light, frothy and silly; homespun and harried.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun to read, November 2, 2006

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Roger Long "longrush" (Port Clinton, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Biggie and the Meddlesome Mailman (Hardcover)

According to the blurb on the cover, this is a series of "sidesplitting adventures." Well, my sides are still intact, but the book was lots of fun. As is the case in most so-called "cozy" mysteries, the plot is not the most important aspect of the book. There is murder, to be sure, but the pursuit of the killer is hit and miss. Mrs. Biggie is a most unusual Sherlock, assisted by her young Watson, but she gets it done.

Atmosphere is the more important thing here, a quiet little town in east Texas in the recent summer. The author takes us there, lets the reader see it, walk the streets, feel it, smell it, taste it. One can scarcely ask for more. Job's Crossing is as real as anything.

Just as well done are the characters, 12-year old J.R., the narrator, his diminutive grandmother, Biggie, the rest of the household, the senator, and the townsfolk. They live and breathe.

Nancy Bell has a marvelous ear for the local vocabulary, including the inflection and nuance. The reader can just dang near hear the people talking. The grammar isn't perfect, but it makes perfect sense in creating believable characters, people who can't stay on the same line of reasoning for two sentences.

Put all this together and we have a novel that is great fun to read.