JotD: Poor nuns (PWH00050)
McNally’s Risk by Lawrence Sanders (1993) – BR00291 (R2026) – 🐸🐸🐸⚪⚪
Plot or Premise
Archy is tasked with checking out a potential bride of a rich woman’s son. The beautiful and potential bride lives in a rented condo with her father, and not many know much about her other than her name: Theodosia.
What I Liked
Like all of Archy’s cases, what starts off simple frequently becomes more complicated. In this case, we have a confused relationship with the father, some lies that might lead to potential cons or swindles, strange backstories that are hard to confirm, and just for fun, several bodies that drop. Starting with people who seem to have run afoul or shown too much interest in Theo or her father. But they aren’t the only suspects, which is a good set of herrings to consider.
What I Didn’t Like
There’s a sub-plot with potential blackmail and Archy seems a little slow on the uptake for some of the potential cons. What is obvious to the reader takes Archy far too long to figure out, and no one else in the entire set of societal encounters notices either, yet the con isn’t that good. I liked the story, but the setup was relatively obvious from the first introduction.
The Bottom Line
Good plot with a couple of slow spots
The Fourth Deadly Sin by Lawrence Sanders (1985) – BR00290 (R2026) – 🐸🐸🐸⚪⚪
Plot or Premise
A Manhattan psychiatrist is working late, and then becomes the late psychiatrist when someone visits, attacks, kills and then mutilates the doctor. No leads in the case leads to Delaney being asked to investigate.
What I Liked
Sanders seems to like to alternate between revealing the murderer early or keeping it a secret. In this one, it is a secret. In addition to family and friends, there are four patients who could be the killer. All with unique personalities; all with unique issues. And they all have to be checked out with different approaches.
What I Didn’t Like
With the four suspects, there is a LOT of space devoted to figuring out how to get close to them, worm out their secrets, knowing that at least two or three are going to be completely uninvolved and the investigations of them are just red herrings. I also figured out who the killer was really early on, perhaps 15% of the way into the book, and it was a LONG slog to get to the end.
The Bottom Line
The killer is obvious as is the motive, but it takes a long time to get there
2026: J is for jokes
On my blog, I have a “joke of the day” option, and a few years ago, I went through some saved humour and posted about eighty jokes or so.
Then, about a year ago, I realized that I could share them as images, like memes, rather than just text, and it wasn’t that much more work. Plus I could still index them.
Great. I set a schedule, posted a bunch, tried to map them across days by theme, etc. And it fell apart. The schedule I mean. I did all the images. I just forgot to post them. I got busy.
I still have about 30 to go, and I’m trying to do at least one joke or quote per day.
I don’t know what I’ll do when I have the 80 done, but I’ll likely add to them. I have lots saved over the years. Just need to set them up, generate the image, and post.
If you have a good joke that isn’t too long, send it along!