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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780312974244
ISBN number: 0312974248
Label: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 320
Printing Date: July 15, 2000
Publishing house: St. Martin's Paperbacks
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TV producer Farrell Slater just stumbled on a story that might save her career...or get her killed. A prestigious New York auction house just sold a Fabergé Egg for six million dollars. But Farrell knows it is a fake. So does a college student who promised never to tell the location of the real one. And so does a cunning murderer who has already dismembered one victim...set fire to another...and strangled still another in order to carry off the greatest scam of the century. And now he or she has a special fate in mind for a TV newswoman who just can't keep a secret. . .
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This is my very first book I read written by Mary Jane Clark and might be my last. Although the concept of the plot is good the story seems underdeveloped. The story jumps around a lot with all the different characters telling the story. The characters were flat and didn't seem to have any life in them. Romance suddenly springs up in the middle of the book for no apparent reason between two of the characters. I was in no hurry to finish reading this book to find out who did the crimes. This is a mediocre book at best. I urge readers to read Mary Higgins Clark for page turning mysteries that will keep you at the edge of your seat.
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Do You Promise Not to Tell? Nope. This is one of the choppiest books I have ever read. I could not figure out the characters; they were never developed. Just as I started to see depth in a character, the chapter would end and the subsequent would be about some other character; it was frustrating. I feel confident in telling readers this isn't worth taking the time to read.
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In her very first novel, Mary Jane Clark gave us a fine plot with plenty of suspense til right near the end, some characters to like (albeit the leading lady was a bit "squeaky clean"), and a different venue from most mysteries -- the busy newsroom of a major broadcast studio. Our gripe was that there was too much clutter, from almost unnecessary sub-plots to discussions about diseases and so on, that distracted from our story. Yet, we wanted to move to this book (her second novel) and see if we might find some improvement.
Indeed, the elements we liked are back: an excellent plot, with another late reasonably surprising "whodunit" at the end; the broadcast news venue; and characters we could relate to -- not so squeaky clean this time! Our leading lady, Farrell Slater, whose producing job is on the line throughout (actually, "given notice" by her boss, Range Bullock, whose minor role was reprised from book 1) discovers a probable art fraud of a six-million-dollars-at-auction Faberge Egg leftover from Imperialist Russia. So in addition to a couple of attacks and murders to solve, the true whereabouts and story of the egg form an entertaining tale throughout.
I think Mary Jane is on to something; to us, this is clearly a better effort than her first, although maybe not quite the "Stunner!" claimed by none other than [the real] Dan Rather on the dust jacket. The distractions are gone except for one remaining peeve -- our 260 pages of story are divided into 139 chapters. Maybe our author, a TV Newswoman in real life, just can't get away from a sound byte mentality. Keep the good stuff, give us a little more time per scene, and we'll be looking for five stars in her ensuing work. Good reading!
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Although the story was good enough to keep me reading to find out what happened, the author's style seems more appropriate for news writing (her "other" job) than for novel writing. Fifteen-second news stories work better than 15-line chapters -- at least for this reader, who's not part of a Sesame Street generation.
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Mary Jane Clark has the gift to bring her characters to life. This is a story of a TV producer, Farrell Slater who is on her last leg of her career. Either she gets the story of a lifetime or she'll be at the unemployment line. She is sent on assignment to an auction house that is selling the famous Faberge egg "The Moon Egg'. The egg sells for a record 6 million dollars. Farrell soon discovers that the egg is a fake and she knows who has the real one. Soon people who are aware of this egg are dying. This could be the story Farrell needs to get her career back or it could be the story to end her life. I had fun trying to figure out who the "bad guy" was. Read this book and have fun with it.
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