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"As Talcott (Misha) Garland, a Yale law school professor, mourns the death (murder?)of his father, a federal judge once nominated for the supreme court, Jack Ziegler, a longtime friend of the family, approaches him at the cemetery and tells him two facts; his father left "arrangements" that Jack wants, and Talcott and his wife, Kimmer (Kimberly) and his three year old son are out of danger.
With these words, Talcott is led into a madcap race for the "arrangements", complicated by a cryptic note left by his father. Are they papers, treasures or valuable objects? Why does the criminal, Jack, want them? The quest for information is strewn with dead,tortured bodies, false FBI agents, and an unfaithful wife. Chess moves provide Misha with clues if he can only figure them out. This 658-page mystery, unraveled in Washington, D.C., Martha's Vinyard, and a town suspiciously similar to New Haven, Connecticut, keeps the reader on edge with its cleverly placed clues and intellectual mindgames. "
Betty-Jeanne Korson, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20%
Tone of story
- suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
How difficult to spot villain?
- Challenging
Time/era of story:
- 1980's-1999
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 90%
Special suspect?
- chronically deranged person
Misc. Murder Plotlets
- "All in the family" murder
Kind of investigator
- amateur citizen investigator
Any non-mystery subplot?
- minority/women/homosexual issues
Crime Thriller
Yes
Murder Mystery (killer unknown)
Yes
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- teacher
Age:
- 40's-50's
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character:
- super strength
Eccentric/Mental:
Yes
Eccentric:
- obsessed
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How much violence does he/she use?
- none
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Main Adversary
Profession/status:
- government investigator
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a little/some
Motive of antagonist
- power
The antagonists are:
- FBI/CIA
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Island?
Yes
Island:
- on vacation
City?
Yes
City:
- Washington D.C.
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gorey references to deaths/dead bodies and torture
How many deaths?
- 3-4
Sex
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- actual description of sex
A lot of techno jargon?
Yes
Kind of jargon?
- math
Unusual forms of death
- run over
- crushed
- perforation--swords/knives
Unusual form of death?
Yes
Amount of dialog
- significantly more descript than dialog
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