The Woman Who Walked into the Sea (Jeff Jackson/Martha's Vineyard Mystery) [Hardcover]

Philip R.Craig (Author)

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Publication Date: March 1, 1991

When crusty university professor Marjorie Summerharp ""accidently"" drowns on Martha's Vineyard, former police officer Jeff Jackson's investigation exposes some sinister secrets and a world full of jealousy and adultery. Reprint.

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From Publishers Weekly

Bluefish and adultery, infused with sun and sea and spiced with academic jealousy and local lore, are served up in Craig's second entertaining mystery set in Martha's Vineyard and featuring the agreeable Boston-cop-turned-fisherman, J. W. Jackson. Literature professors Ian McGregor and elderly, acid-tongued Marjorie Summerharp are on the island writing a paper about a lost Shakespearean play. Jackson's true love, Zee Madeiras, has begun dating the charming McGregor when Summerharp's body turns up in a trawling net. Jackson, using his knowledge of the tides, suspects she has been murdered. Tracing the dead woman's recent past, he meets other, mostly randy, academics summering on the Vineyard; a couple running an upscale meditation center that also offers physical fulfillment; and Tristan Cooper, an 80-year-old former professor most interested now in local stones he believes are evidence of European settlement long before Columbus. Red herrings swim with the bluefish as hardy/sensitive Jackson weathers storms climatic and emotional to win back his girl and solve the mystery.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Fisherman, ex-Boston cop, and sometime sleuth J.W. Jackson ( A Beautiful Place To Die ) searches for an explanation of the drowning death off Martha's Vineyard of crusty, opinionated scholar Marjorie Summerharp, an excellent swimmer. Suspecting murder most foul, J.W. looks for motive and opportunity among the woman's acquaintances, including the Lothario-like coauthor of her soon-to-be-released article on a lost Shakespeare play and the slick pair operating a questionable "health retreat" for the wealthy. Local atmosphere suffuses each page as the seemingly minor plot develops dire complications and culminates in a captivating drug-induced and storm-wracked conclusion. Most enjoyable.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Scribner; First Edition edition (March 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684192284
• ISBN-13: 978-0684192284
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,945,945 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Feisty professor Marjorie Summerharp walked into the sea for an early morning swim and never returned. Her body was picked up in a fishing net at a location strange to those who knew the tides and currents.
J.W. met the quick witted and acid tongue professor at a party, she was entering her final year to retirement with a new book to enhance her towering reputation as a scholar.
Philip Craig's THE WOMAN WHO WALKED INTO THE SEA gives the reader a insightful view of the realms of higher education with academic jealousy, financial rewarding religious practices and adultery forming a deadly triangle of deceit. For whom was the professor's demise the most beneficial?
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