A Cat on a Beach Blanket: An Alice Nestleton Mystery [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Lydia Adamson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2001

While housesitting in the Hamptons, Alice Nestleton finds herself the primary suspect in the murder of Bea Verdi, a sensitive young poet, and she sets out to clear her name, with the help of some feline friends."

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From Kirkus Reviews

Perpetually unemployed actress Alice Nestleton, back for a 14th outing (A Cat Under the Mistletoe, 1996, etc.), has taken a three-month off-season house-sitting job in Hollandia, a tiny town in the Hamptons. The solitude of her ocean-front mansion, though, drives lonely Alice to attend a poetry reading at the nearby home of Marla Norris. There, she meets, among others, cookbook author Jenny Rule and aspiring poet Bea Verdi. Alice leaves the gathering just in time to see Bea killed when her car explodes, and to suffer minor injuries herself. Truculent State Trooper Dayton Coop seems to suspect Alice, despite a plethora of eccentric characters in the neighborhood: incredibly handsome young Nick Frye, who carries a loaded gun and, in the wake of Bea's death, threatens to jump off the town's church tower; Harry Bulton, a bitter relic from the glory days of the area's commercial striped-bass fishing; burly painter-poet Karl Drabek, and other equally curious figures. Alice, soon recovered from her wounds, finds the body of Jenny Rule on the beach; has her house vandalized; spies a pregnant, belled cat among the dunes; and, after much nervy nosey-parkering makes the tenuous connection between past and present that ended in murder. An unlikely story not enhanced by Alice's boring cats or by her constant state of near hysteria. Only Adamson's quirky, quick- stepping style keeps this one readable to the end. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 231 pages
• Publisher: Thorndike Press (June 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786226498
• ISBN-13: 978-0786226498
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,001,304 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It was ok, November 25, 2000

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Anne (Middletown, Maryland United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Cat on a Beach Blanket: An Alice Nestleton Mystery (Paperback)

I haven't finished this book yet, but it hasn't been very interesting so far. I have liked a lot of other works by Adamson, but this one just doesn't have that edge. Sure, someone gets killed but isn't someone always getting killed? It wasn't as creative as the other books.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Was okay., June 29, 2001

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"bibliofiend" - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Cat on a Beach Blanket: An Alice Nestleton Mystery (Hardcover)

This is the first book in this series that I have read. It flowed very smoothly and was a fun read. The tight knit group of characters is very believable considering the small town in which the story takes place. The author kept you wondering what was going to happen next. If you are looking for a quick read, this is a good place to start.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not as much fun, October 20, 2000

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jean paschen (TUCSON, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Cat on a Beach Blanket: An Alice Nestleton Mystery (Paperback)

I didn't like this Alice Nestleton mystery as well as I have the others because she is not in NYC with her friends Tony and Nora. She has to solve this mystery on her own. The tone of the book seems more lonely. At one point I was hoping that Alice would go back to NYC, but it didn't happen. Nonetheless, it is a quick read and enjoyable.