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TO PERISH IN PENZANCE
by Jeanne M. Dams
Worldwide Myster, November 2002
251 pages
$5.99
ISBN: 0373264380


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The story commences with yet another rainy day in England. It is September, a pretty but very wet time. Dorothy Martin, a retired school teacher from America, now lives in England and her husband is retired from the police. His name is Alan Nesbitt. He relates an unsolved crime of thirty years past that involved a twenty year old girl. Since this case still troubles Alan, Dorothy decides to investigate and see what she could learn. Plans are made to visit Cornwall - specifically Penzance.

Dorothy and Alan meet a mother and daughter upon their arrival. Distraught feelings are evident between these two women and the mother looks as if she may be ill. The daughter is well known in certain circles and definitely is quite striking.

Attending a party at the home of a former acquaintance of Alan, Dorothy persuades Lexa (the daughter recently met) to attend with them. In a very short period of time, social graces and happiness is not the mood. A body had been found and they both recognize who it was. This current murder and the 30-year-old murder have a connection.

The bulk of this chronicle is how Alan and Dorothy discover the many secrets.

There is an involvement of drugs, greed, illness, youth and some poor choices. Throughout it all, we, the reader, learn more about this part of the world. When they are leaving this area to return home (after the solution of the crime), Dorothy comments that she does not want to return to Penzance. They had found too much ugliness there. Alan reminds her that it is not the fault of the place; all locations have good and evil. This statement, I found valuable.

Description is key in this book. Not only the scenery and the people, but all the food! The food depicted in this book made me hungry: the cream teas, the scones and the strawberry jam. Description was such that I could enjoy the taste even in the reading!

I am awaiting the next installment of Dorothy Martin and her adventure.

Reviewed by Rita Ratacheck, January 2003

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