The Strange Files of Fremont Jones: A Fremont Jones Mystery (Fremont Jones Mysteries)
by Dianne Day | Mystery & Thrillers | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 055356921x Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 055356921x Global Overview for this book
Registered by sally906 of Toowoomba, Queensland Australia on 11/17/2010
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The year is 1905. Fleeing the confines of her staid Boston upbringing and a potential marriage to a loathsome suitor, the modern-thinking Caroline Fremont Jones opens a typewriting business in San Francisco using the name Fremont. Her business brings her in contact with the normally mild young attorney Justin Cameron, who reacts with hostility when Fremont takes dictation from "ancient gentleman" Li Wong. A week later, Li Wong is dead, and Fremont's office is ransacked. Another client, Edgar Allan Partridge, brings three manuscript stories to Freemont for typing but never returns to pick them up. His brooding tales are full of evil and very like those of his namesake. Fremont's investigations into the mysteries of her dead and missing clients lead her to suspect her rooming-house neighbor, whom she believes is a spy.
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Journal Entry 3 by sally906 at Secret Santa Exchange, Secret Santa Exchange -- Controlled Releases on Friday, November 26, 2010
Released 13 yrs ago (11/27/2010 UTC) at Secret Santa Exchange, Secret Santa Exchange -- Controlled Releases
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Unwrapped today. Thanks to my Secret Santa for sending this - it doesn't look like something that I would normally pick up but I'll give it a go!
This was a quick little book to read. Probably the bit I liked best about the book was the location - San Francisco in the early 1900s. It's a city I've visited a few times and it was great to be able to get a different idea of it. Freemont Jones herself was an interesting character - tho she seemed a bit artificial in some ways and I didn't find her actions 100% believable. The plot was a little odd - intertwining two unrelated stories - with the perhaps 'lesser' plotline (Edgar Allan Partridge and his tales) taking up comparatively more words than the main plot! Writing was serviceable but nothing special. All in all, an easy diversion for a couple of hours but I don't feel particularly that I need to read more of Freemont's adventures.
Released 13 yrs ago (12/30/2010 UTC) at Lazy Lehua Cottage in Volcano, Hawaii USA
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Releasing this in the lovely cottage we have been staying in for the past few days. There is a bookcase here and I will leave it there for other guests to enjoy.