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The Sayers Swindle

von Victoria Abbott

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Reihen: A Book Collector Mystery (2)

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"Jordan Kelly makes money tracking down rare and valuable mystery novels for her employer, Vera Van Alst, an avid collector and the most difficult woman in Harrison Falls, New York. But now her boss's complete set of Dorothy Sayers is missing, and finding them may lead Jordan to a murder suitable for Sayers's esteemed sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey"--… (mehr)
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Great mystery! Our favorite characters are back and a new mystery highlighting the characters and stories of Dorothy l. Sayers. Now I have to go reread all of those books as well! ( )
  yonitdm | Sep 1, 2022 |
Jordan Bingham works for Vera Van Alst, living at her estate while helping to maintain the extensive book collection. Her main task at present is to recover the Sayers collection, eight Sayers mysteries that were stolen from Vera's collection before her employment. The local book seller, Karen Smith, had sold the books to another collector, not knowing they were stolen but she is unable to remember the details because of an attack which left her severely injured with a head injury resulting in memory loss. Jordan has been trying to help Karen jog her memory so that the new owners can be contacted to try to retrieve the books. When the buyers are located, their actions seem to be a bit strange and Jordan draws on her family to help determine what's happening and how she can get the Sayers collection back.

The twists and turns are accompanied by the less then lawful antics of her uncles, bringing a smile more than once. The characters still need some fleshing out, but the story was entertaining. ( )
  cyderry | Jan 14, 2021 |
Jordan Bingham, a member of a family with a criminal reputation, lives in the Van Alst home with its owner, a woman who collects classic mysteries. Eleven stolen Sayers books were sold by a dealer who had no idea the books were stolen and who is suffering from the effects of head trauma. When they track down the purchaser, they realize something is amiss in the situation. The book goes downhill from there into an absurd plot with nothing to commend it. Audiobook narrator Carla Mercer-Meyer does a good job with the narration of this underwhelming installment. ( )
  thornton37814 | Apr 22, 2018 |
If in book one Jordan Bingham was trying to imitate Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, this time she's trying to imitate her fictional crush, Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey.

Jordan is still working for collector Vera Van Alst, who probably wouldn't know how to be charming if her life depended upon it. This time she has to track down the eight Sayers mysteries that were stolen from Vera's collection (see book one, The Christie Curse).

Remember Karen Smith, the nice bookseller who was attacked and left for dead? She's still having memory problems from her head injury. She'd bought and sold the Sayers books in good faith. If only she could remember the buyer. If a currently unreliable memory isn't trouble enough, Karen's new next-door neighbors are deeply unpleasant. I really hope the husband gets the book thrown at him for an almost unbelievable thing he does later.

Jordan's Uncles Mick and Lucky Kelley are still taking care of Karen's pug, Walter. They don't want to give him up when Karen will be well enough to care for him again. That could be a problem.

Eddie McRae, the mailman who has loved Vera since high school, is trying to solve his beloved's need for a gardener by taking care of her lawn. Vera is not appreciative. Is that his problem?

The Kellys have a more immediate problem and his name is Kevin Francis Kelly. Uncle Kev is a walking disaster waiting to happen -- to others. He's on the run and driving Mick and Lucky crazy. So far they haven't managed to fob him off on Uncles Bill, Connie, Danny, or Tiny.

Jordan has plenty of misadventures trying to get those books back ('helped' by Uncle Kev). Officer Dekker is back in the picture, as is handsome librarian Lance DeWitt. Jordan's best friend, nurse Tiffany 'Tiff' Tibeault, is currently working where Jordan can't keep in touch with texts. A policewoman seems interested in becoming friends, though.

I really enjoyed this book and regret that I don't know when my local library will get a copy of The Marsh Madness.

Notes:

Interesting that Jordan says she collected photos of Craftsman houses while other kids collected My Little Ponies in chapter two. Her My Little Pony collection is mentioned more than once in book three, The Wolfe Widow.

Chapter two is where we find out that the World War I flying ace Billy Bishop is one of Uncle Kev 's heroes.

Chapter four: I watched 'The Addams Family' when I was a kid. If you didn't see the show's first run or somehow missed the reruns, Lurch was the Addams' butler. It's a fun show and the theme is well worth a listen. You might also want to see the books reprinting Charles Addams' magazine cartoons that led to the show.

See chapter eight for the kind of Simpsons pajamas that Tiff gave to Jordan.

Chapter 13: 'Shazam!' was a comic book wizard's name, the shouting of which transformed a boy named Billy Batson into the 1939-1953 Captain Marvel. (The wizard's name had to be used for the title of the 1972 revival comic book because Marvel Comics had had their own Captain Marvel since the late 1960s. I believe that I bought the first issue I owned of the latter in 1968.) If you enjoy superheroes, you might wish to check out reprint books of the original and revival issues. I wasn't a fan of the live-action TV series, but it did well enough.

See chapter 16 for what the Kellys consider the best of their traditional cuisine. One of the uncles is serving baloney and formerly frozen French fries earlier in the book, so consider yourself warned. I laughed at Jordan's reassurance to Vera and the Signora's reaction to one of the items on the menu.

Cat lovers: Vera's blue-point Siamese, Good Cat and Bad Cat, are in fine form. They even have a role in solving Vera's need for a new gardener/handyman.

Dog lovers: Not only has Walter the pug stolen the cover spot from the Siamese, we get introduced to a large, shaggy mutt named Cobain (called 'the spare dog' in one chapter).

The recipes in this book are 'Pollo Ai Peperoni' (Chicken With Peppers), 'Zuppa Rustica' (Rustic Italian Soup), and 'Maionesa' (Homemade Mayonnaise). ( )
  JalenV | Sep 11, 2015 |
The Sayers Swindle is the second in the Book Collector Mystery series by Victoria Abbott, and relations haven't much changed between Jordan Bingham and her employer, Vera Van Alst: the latter is still rude and demanding, the former still forbearing and resourceful. Unfortunately Vera's 11-book collection of first editions of Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey novels has been stolen and book seller Karen Smith has inadvertently sold them to another collector, and of course Vera wants them back, now. Karen had recently suffered serious head trauma, however, and she can't quite remember the name of the collector or where he or she might be. While Jordan tries to help Karen remember, she learns that there might be other people looking for the books, for different reasons than Vera's - reasons that might well lead to murder.... As with the first novel in this series, The Christie Curse, this entry is a quite delightful cozy, with a number of asides in which our first-person narrator muses about Sayers' work and her great sleuth, on whom Jordan has of course developed a quite understandable crush. One need not have read the first novel to enjoy this one, but certain events and relationships are much more clear if one has. Recommended! ( )
  thefirstalicat | Jun 30, 2015 |
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Abbott, VictoriaHauptautoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
Maffini, Mary Janereal name of the co-authorCo-Autoreinige Ausgabenbestätigt
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[Jordan is idly wondering which mystery author Vera might aspire to be. After comparing her to Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers...]

Being housebound for so long and now set in her ways, Vera was more like Nero Wolfe, without the 'charm.' (chapter 10)
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