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"Dead junkies, missing girls, serial rapists, robberies - it's all go in Denton. And Detective Inspector Jack Frost never stops. Or sleeps. But one by one he gets through them all in his dirty, scruffy, politically incorrect way. Stuff the red tape and paperwork, he's more interested in stopping the crimes."
Christopher Moore, Resident Scholar
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"It's a busy week for crime in the English country town of Denton where Jack Frost is a CID Inspector. There is a young girl missing, an assault on a woman that looks like the latest in a series of rapes, a mysterious death of a vagrant in a men's toilet, a hit and run in which an elderly man is knocked down and dies, a pawnbroker heist which seems to have lead to the death of a police constable, an armed robbery at a nightclub and a series of robberies in which the latest victim is a moneylender who has had more than seventy gold sovereigns stolen. Frost bumbles through these cases in an on and off fashion as his superior, Superintendent Mullett, takes him off cases which he hands to Detective Inspector Allen only to return them as more important cases come in. By luck, guesswork and deduction it is of course the scruffy, slaphappy (hates paperwork) protagonist who manages to solve most of the cases, and the perpetrators are the most unlikely suspects. "
Penny , 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 - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 30%
Tone of story
- Dry-cynical
How difficult to spot villain?
- Very difficult--no foreshadowing/clues
- Difficult, but some clues given
Time/era of story:
- 1980's-1999
Misc. Murder Plotlets
- Proving innocence of very obvious suspect
Kind of investigator
- police procedural, British
Kid or adult book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Crime Thriller
Yes
Murder Mystery (killer unknown)
Yes
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 40's-50's
How much violence does he/she use?
- none
- a little
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
- an organization
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
- criminal
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a little/some
Motive of antagonist
- money/treasure
- jealousy
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
- very gorey descriptions deaths/dead bodies
How many deaths?
- 2
Sex
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- descript. of breasts
- descript. of other female areas
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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