"With deft, wry prose and a credible plot, Fraser holds our interest and leaves us clamoring for more Jemima Shore mysteries."—Publishers Weekly
In this tale Jemima is reluctantly shooting a TV exposé — "Golden Lads and Girls" — on the exotic lifestyles of overprivileged undergraduates. Among them is Lord Saffron, the wealthy, twenty-year-old heir to the former foreign secretary. When a confession by a dying midwife throws Saffron's birth and bloodline into doubt, Jemima's interest in the documentary perks up considerably. Then a student is murdered, drawing Jemima into a case that will demand the utmost of her skills of detection.
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Antonia Fraser has written six Jemima Shore mysteries....All of the books are very well written, and Jemima is an interesting, complicated heroine. If you like twists and turns and good writing, try this one. -- Mystery News, Mary Ann Steele, February/March 1999
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The acclaimed English biographer Lady Antonia Fraser is also a talented mystery writer whose Quiet As a Nun was filmed for the Mystery! series on PBS.
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Why Bother?,
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This review is from: Oxford Blood: A Jemima Shore Mystery (Jemima Shore Mysteries) (Paperback)
This is the second Jemima Shore book I have read. I picked up both books at a library sale. Having previously read Lady Antonia's Warrior Queens and The Weaker Vessel, I was looking forward to great reads with these two books - Oxford Blood and A Splash of Red.
Sorry, Jemima Shore just doesn't appeal to me. Spoiled, precious and promiscuous, Jemima and the other characters are people I would not like to meet. Why in the world would a woman of Jemima's wealth and charm have sex with some really disgusting men? This book is not educational, entertaining, escapist, elucidating or enlightening. There is no reason to read it unless you are stuck at home in a blizzard and have nothing else to read.
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'It was kind of you to come at such short notice,' said Sister Imelda to Jemima Shore. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Lord St Ives, Nurse Elsie, Eugenia Jones, Andrew Iverstone, Lady St Ives, Saffron Ivy, Sister Imelda, Miss Shore, Golden Kids, Daphne Iverstone, Tiggie Jones, Lord Saffron, Miss Lewis, Kerry Barber, Fanny Iverstone, Professor Mossbanker, Cass Brinsley, Professor Ho, Rufus Pember, Oxford Bloods, Bim Marcus, Spike Thompson, Megalith Television, Rochester College, Staircase Thirteen New!
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'It was kind of you to come at such short notice,' said Sister Imelda to Jemima Shore. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Lord St Ives, Nurse Elsie, Eugenia Jones, Andrew Iverstone, Lady St Ives, Saffron Ivy, Sister Imelda, Miss Shore, Golden Kids, Daphne Iverstone, Tiggie Jones, Lord Saffron, Miss Lewis, Kerry Barber, Fanny Iverstone, Professor Mossbanker, Cass Brinsley, Professor Ho, Rufus Pember, Oxford Bloods, Bim Marcus, Spike Thompson, Megalith Television, Rochester College, Staircase Thirteen New!
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- Prince of Wales by John Williams on page 128
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- Murder Most Divine: Ecclesiastical Tales of Unholy Crimes by Ralph McInerny in Back Matter
- The Sun Sign Reader (Astrological Profiles) by Joan Revill on page 33
- Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East by Pico Iyer on page 357
- Murder Most Divine: Ecclesiastical Tales of Unholy Crimes by Ralph M McInerny on page 343
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