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"Jinx Kingsley is admitted to a hospital room with amnesia, but eventually she regains her long term memory. The police come in to ask her why she tried to commit suicide, but she is vehement that she would never do that. She has can't remember the last few weeks, so they remind her that she is still under suspicion for her fiance and best friend's murders. She asks why she would do that and is told that her fiance broke off the engagement to be with her best friend. She tries to remember this after the police leave and remembers not being upset by the fact that Leo and Meg were together. She thinks it is someone else who was in love with Meg."
Laura Allen, Resident Scholar
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"Jinx Kingsley, photographer, alienated from her wealthy and megalomaniacal father and her screwed-up stepfamily, is engaged to be married to Leo Wallader. She wakes up wounded in hospital one day with a shaved head and no memory of the car crash that got her there or the several days preceeding it. Since Jinx's last remembered moments, her betrothed has dumped her for her best friend, Meg, and they've both dissappeared without a trace -- foul play is suspected, but nobody knows for sure. Dr. Protheroe (the exceptionally stubborn and frustrating psychiatrist), Jinx, and various other family, friends, enemies and investigators try to sort out what happened to Jinx, and to Leo and Meg.
Meanwhile Dr. Protheroe and Jinx war with one another about whether she needs or wants his professional help, neither of them knowing whether or not Jinx has committed murder, or whether she was the intended victim."
, 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 - 45%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 25%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 10%
Tone of story
- depressing/sad
How difficult to spot villain?
- Difficult, but some clues given
Time/era of story:
- present (2000-2010)
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 70%
- 90%
Special suspect?
- investigator him/herself
Misc. Murder Plotlets
- "All in the family" murder
- Proving innocence of very obvious suspect
- Big focus on forensic evidence
Kind of investigator
- police procedural, American
- amateur citizen investigator
Kid or adult book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Any non-mystery subplot?
- amnesia
Crime Thriller
Yes
Murder Mystery (killer unknown)
Yes
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- photographer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental:
Yes
Eccentric:
- eccentric
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How much violence does he/she use?
- a little
Ethnicity/Race
- White/American
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- physically sick
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 60's-90's
Profession/status:
- wealthy
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- an average amount
Motive of antagonist
- power
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- quite fatty
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
- rotating 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
How many deaths?
- 3-4
Sex
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- descript. of breasts
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--swords/knives
Unusual form of death?
Yes
Amount of dialog
- significantly more dialog than descript
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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