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Elusive Quarry

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Found this at a library sale for $1. Loss of $1. Cozy mystery reading is for absorbing time that cannot be spent on other activities and not for stimulating brain cells. If they are done well, they serve a purpose. Not in this instance, however. When I woke up at 4AM today, I picked it up to read in order to get me back to sleep. A decent cozy mystery should be able to gently do that. The book is so poorly written that at 5AM I had to get up and put it with my get-rid-of-books. Seventeen degrees outside, not much warmer in my garage where I have two boxes for books I have decided not to keep: donate to library sales or throw out. This clunker went in the latter. Do not be fooled by the blurbs on the book jacket [shame on them]. The author has no skill in creating characters, in developing background, in dialogue, in plotting. She appears to be writing a mystery circa 1914 [the niece is a "hoyden"], the kind found in a cardboard box at a book sale where the entire box is a buck. Never worth the money unless for decorative purposes only in a furniture store. As this is not the author's first book [she would probably refer to first as "maiden voyage"], I trust all others should be avoided. The author's name is "B[e] Comfort[ed]," which should have made me suspicious and warned me not to buy it.