A Mouthful of Sand - Hardcover
Set in a windblown resort in Cornwall, a tale of passion, greed, and murder unfolds as Lennox Kemp is drawn to a beautiful, mysterious women, a gruesome killing takes place, and he searches for clues
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Despite her literary self-assurance, Meek falters in this fifth mystery involving smart Lennox Kemp, London lawyer. Kemp joins his lover, Penelope Marsden, at a luxury resort on the Cornish coast where he chances to meet Mirable Snape, the wife of a client. The beautiful, bibulous woman sets tongues wagging with her gallivanting; she rarely puts in an appearance at the home of her aunt, where she is a nominal guest with her young son. When a man's decapitated head turns up in a fisherman's net, Mirable, for reasons unknown, becomes catatonic, and Kemp--by now seduced by her charms--finds himself investigating a murder case perhaps linked to her flashy crowd. Though compelled by Meek's writing up to this point, the reader is bound for disappointment in her contrived and incredible denouement: the rugged individualists who were her characters unexpectedly become "types."
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Meek ( A Worm of Doubt ), like Guthrie, employs the sleuth-on-vacation notion when series protagonist/lawyer Lennox Kemp accompanies girlfriend Penelope Marsden to Cornwall on holiday. They run into the wife of one of Kemp's clients, an attractive but apparently wild and drug-deluded young woman. As Kemp defines a connection between the woman and the grisly death of a local fisherman, he jeopardizes his relationship with Penelope. Superb village settings, excellent writing, and nicely done plot machinations characterize this quietly efficient effort.-- REK
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- PublisherScribner
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0684190672
- ISBN 13 9780684190679
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages208
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. US Uncorrected Advance Proof of the seventh novel in the Lennox Kemp series. The bio in the book says this is the fifth Lennox Kemp mystery and yet Fantasy Fiction and Stop You're Killing Me both show this is the seventh. So my only guess is that two of the Kemp novels weren't published in the US. In fine condition. Seller Inventory # 22446
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Softcover, trade paperback format, Uncorrected Advance Proof as printed on front cover, Condition: As New, due to small bump to top right corner and light fading to cover at spine, otherwise New, Unread, Tight Binding, Never opened past copyright page, Spine Not Broken, First American Edition: 1989 as stated, First Printing, Full # Print line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 as printed on copyright page, #5 of 15 in the "Lennox Kemp" Mystery Series: * 1. With Flowers That Fell (1983) 2. The Sitting Ducks (1984) 3. Hang the Consequences (1984) 4. The Split Second (1985) 5. In Remembrance of Rose (1986) 6. Worm of Doubt (1987) 7. A Mouthful of Sand (1988) 8. A Loose Connection (1989) 9. This Blessed Plot (1990) 10. Touch and Go (1992) 11. Postscript to Murder (1996) 12. A House to Die for (1999) 13. If You Go Down to the Woods (2001) 14. The Vanishing Point (2002) 15. Kemp's Last Case (2004). Seller Inventory # ABE-1678294050033
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