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3.0 out of 5 stars
A different "Dallas" tale, and part of a contest,
By Billie Rae Bates "BRBTV.com, BillieRae.com" (Washington, D.C.) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
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This review is from: Who killed Jock Ewing?: A Dallas mystery (Paperback)
This novel, with action that happens outside the regular "Dallas" TV show's continuum, explores the mysterious death of Jock Ewing in the helicopter crash in the South American jungle. The book, published by Simon and Schuster in 1985, was part of a contest. You bought and read the book, then you filled out the entry blank in the back of the book, tore it out and mailed it in, along with a 200-word essay on why you thought your chosen character killed Jock Ewing. Lorimar offered $200,000 in prizes, with the grand prize at $50,000 in cash. Other prizes included a cruise, a fur cape and a 1986 Special Edition Audi.
As for the story, you could almost call this novel a sequel to Lee Raintree's "Dallas." It picks up some key characters and storylines from that novel, namely Roberta Lessing, whom Jock once had an affair with, and Bond Whitson (called Whitmore here), Jock's longtime, faithful driver. At the beginning of the novel, it's been a few years since Jock's death, and J.R. gets wind that it might have been murder. He reluctantly brings brothers Bobby and Ray into the mystery. Ray travels to the jungle to interview those who were there at the time of the copter crash, and J.R. follows the Roberta Lessing lead in Washington, D.C. Several names pop up in the suspect list, people whose feathers Jock had ruffled in his younger days: former Secretary of the Treasury Archie (Billygoat) Braddock, Texas Senator Conrad Short and his son. Other characters are brought in from the regular TV continuum: grimy duo Jeb Ames and Willie Joe Garr (who always seem to darken a Ewing doorstep at an inopportune time), as well as Dave Culver and Lee Evans, the pilot from the time of Jock's crash. The mystery is not solved at the end of the book, of course: that was up to you, the reader, back in 1985. And for the most part, the author is true to the characterizations (though the Bond Whitmore he paints is far off-course of the loyal driver Raintree described).
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