Rum and Razors [Large Print] [Paperback]

Donald Bain (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1995

Learning about the financial troubles of inn owners Laurie and Walter Marschalk, Jessica tries to enjoy her lagoon vacation anyway, until Walter's untimely death causes the sleuthing author to investigate a rival hotelier. TV tie-in.

--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Jessica Fletcher is a bestselling mystery writer who has a knack for stumbling upon real-life mysteries in her various travels. 

Donald Bain, Jessica Fletcher’s longtime collaborator, is the writer of over eighty books, many of them bestsellers.

--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 259 pages
• Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc (June 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568952198
• ISBN-13: 978-1568952192
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,885,537 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 "A Caribbean Mystery", November 3, 2000

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Karina A. Suarez "Karina A. Fogliani-Ahmed" (Walt Disney World, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Murder, She Wrote: Rum & Razors (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the second book in the series of the new "Murder, she wrote" mysteries. This time murder takes a holiday with Jessica to the Caribbean. She settles into an extremely luxurious and expensive resort, property of old friends from Cabot Cove and, both writers; he a travel writer who produces his own tour guides; and she, a gourmet cook who mixes her Maine coking with that of the islands. However, as soon as she arrives Jessica senses a lot of tension in her hosts (the owners of the inn). Problems succeed one another until, during a night stroll about the beach, Jessica herself finds a corpse. None other than her own host friend, brutally murdered. Jessica is not convinced of the guilt of an ex-employee who's been apprehended by the police, and she launches into a sleuthing sequence of events that very much annoys everybody, including the local police and her newly widowed host-friend.

I have found this book to be more truthful than the first one to the characters created in the original TV series. It certainly is an improvement from "Manhattans & murder", (which was the first one), but I would not exactly characterize it as unique. The first chapters are somewhat slow, then the murder happens, quite unexpectedly and it will catch you by surprise - good. More slowness right up to the point where the novel really picks-up (too many red herrings perhaps?); and then in the last five chapters is when I couldn't put it down. I have to say also, that although in the TV series Jessica's power of deduction to solve murders is extremely fast and brilliant; in this book she seems much slower. I could pinpoint whodunit even faster than her - something I don't usually achieve with the TV version. Readers new to mysteries will find this an enchanting, maybe even exciting, novel; but as far as I am concerned, it is a simple one.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Do yourself a favor and read this book., July 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Murder, She Wrote: Rum & Razors (Mass Market Paperback)

I think this is the best Murder, She Wrote book out there and I've read just about all of them. I can't come up with any complaints regarding this book. The setting was great, the charactors, and the plot itself was outstanding. It was hard to put the book down once I started to read it. It will be difficult for Fletcher & Bain to make a better story.

3.0 out of 5 stars Hmm, I was surprised but not by the murder!, January 13, 2012

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beekmank - See all my reviews

This review is from: Murder, She Wrote: Rum & Razors (Mass Market Paperback)

Huh! Well, this was very strange. As a "Murder She Wrote" book, this one wasn't too terribly bad. In fact, I'd say it was actually one of the better ones. But who does the author think he's fooling? Only a few weeks ago, I read "The Fatal Feast", another "Murder She Wrote" book by this same author, and one of the major storylines involved the strange mail Jessica Fletcher was getting with the letters "GLOTCOYB" printed on it. This was a major story plot that wasn't resolved until the very end so it was prevalent throughout the book. Last night I read "Rum and Razors" which was written a few years BEFORE "The Fatal Feast" and guess what? It has the very same exact storyline!!!! Jessica gets strange mail with the letters "GLOTCOYB" in the mail and the storyline is resolved in exactly the same way. In fact it takes up the first 5-6 chapters of the book and is almost word for word the same as it is in "The Fatal Feast". Talk about a cut and paste! Does the author really think nobody will notice this? Well, I for one noticed it and I suggest the author come up with something new for his next book or I am done with this series.