The Double Minded Men: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery [Paperback]

Philip R. Craig (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1993

Former Boston cop Jeff Jackson is pressed into temporary security duty when a Middle Eastern big shot visits Martha's Vineyard, and when an emerald necklace suddenly disappears, Jackson must use all of his investigative skills. Reprint.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Martha's Vineyard again makes an evocative setting for ex-cop J.W. Jackson ( The Woman Who Walked into the Sea , LJ 1/91) and his chance encounters with local crime. Hired as temporary security, Jackson and cohorts unknowingly watch over the classic "jewels-stolen-from-the-locked-room" scenario when a fabulous emerald necklace slated for return to the wicked ruler of Sarofim disappears. As Jackson looks for the emeralds, he uncovers kidnappers, an apparent suicide, and an anti-Sarofim revolutionary movement. A delight to read, with plenty of action and beautiful surroundings.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Kirkus Reviews

The third outing (A Beautiful Place to Die, The Woman Who Walked into the Sea) for Martha's Vineyard fisherman Jeff ``J.W.'' Jackson, a former Boston cop now busy full-time proposing to pretty nurse Zee Madieras and wolfing down homemade bluefish pƒte. But the idyll is interrupted when Zee is kidnapped, the courtly Willard Blunt dies a possible suicide, and the famous emerald necklace that Zee's aunt Amelia was returning to the Padishah of Sarofim--after decades of illegal ownership--disappears. Who took it? Did they also take Zee? And are rebellious Sarofim students trying to embarrass the crass, inhumane Padishah? Could there be a connection to the package Amelia blithely had posted to Sarofim nationalist Professor Hamdi Safuat? As this soap-operetta plot unwinds, there are bonito to catch, recipes to share, and a rescue to be effected by a local NRA advocate, whose target practice pays off. Genial banter, but silly clues and a necklace switch that would have been stale even back in Christie's heyday. Some droll humor, though, for Vineyard fans. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Avon Books (Mm) (December 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380719738
• ISBN-13: 978-0380719730
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #712,853 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, April 30, 1999

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This review is from: The Double Minded Men: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery (Paperback)

This is an excellent addition to the Martha's Vineyard series. I got it from the libray, which is about the only way you'll be able to get a copy because it is almost as scarce as hen's teeth. You can enjoy the series without reading the first three which are regretably out of print, but hopefully the publishers will get a clue and reprint the first three. Go to your local library and see if you can find these and then enjoy.

Jeff Jackson and the characters of Martha's Vineyard are always up to some new tricks. The good thing - there are new books coming out all the time. Keep up the good work.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Emerals to Die For, April 7, 2009

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This review is from: The Double Minded Men: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery (Paperback)

The entry in the Vineyard series is a bit on the melodramatic side as Zee slaps a young man who swamps J.W. Jackson's sailboat. But the rotten sailor is a shah of a foreign country.
Philip Craig doesn't handle the contempt that middle Easterners have for women well, but the what is fiction if not drama. Family jewels, but whose family are the concern of the American heirs of a pirates fortune, the middle eastern rulers and his opposition. Then who is helping who do what to whom becomes the heart of J.W. frantic search for his missing bride-to-be.
Not the best of the series, but any series has light weight contenders to move the story forward.
Nash Black, author whose books are also available in Kindle editions.
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4.0 out of 5 stars middle eastern mischief, October 21, 2006

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Paul Skinner (Manassas, Virginia United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Double Minded Men: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery (Paperback)

The Padishah of Sarofim is visiting Martha's Vineyard to buy back his family jewels from a rich American. During the grand black tie ceremony, the jewels go missing. Then, one of the American luminaries is found dead, and our hero's girlfriend is kidnapped. Will J. W. stop the slimy Padishah and his henchmen? You can bet on it. This is a solid mystery.