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Tag Archives: Cuddy

Blunt Darts by Jeremiah Healy (1984) – BR00039 (2003) – 🐸🐸🐸🐸⚪

The PolyBlog
October 9 2003

Plot or Premise

John Cuddy is asked by a grandmother to investigate the disappearance of her grandson, a prominent judge’s son…even though the judge doesn’t seem to want people looking for the boy. Cuddy goes looking anyway, even when a corrupt Sheriff tries to direct him away rather forcefully.

What I Liked

A huge cast of characters, with a couple of the series regulars just beginning to be fleshed out a little.

What I Didn’t Like

A few of the characters were one-dimensional, fifth business to the storyline – only there to pass along a vital clue, and it was usually pretty obvious that the author was trying to slip it by, since Cuddy himself doesn’t catch it.

The Bottom Line

A great story.

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So Like Sleep by Jeremiah Healy (1987) – BR00038 (2003) – 🐸🐸🐸🐸⚪

The PolyBlog
October 9 2003

John Cuddy gets asked by a friend to look into what appears to be an open-and-shut case — a young impoverished black man tries to get ahead at university, dates a white co-ed, and then after she turns up dead, he confesses to the crime while holding the murder weapon. Everyone thinks he’s guilty, including him. But Cuddy finds a strange group of people involved — a whacked psychiatrist with strange ideas, an elderly fitness nut, a sports fan, seductive patients, and sundry lovers.

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The Staked Goat by Jeremiah Healy (1986) – BR00037 (1998) – 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸

The PolyBlog
June 21 1998

John Cuddy is a former insurance investigator who lost his job when he started drinking too much following the death of his wife to cancer. A friend from Vietnam calls him up unexpectedly while visiting Boston, arranges to meet him for dinner and drinks, and misses the date only to show up dead the next morning. Cuddy smells a rat in the official story, and sets out to help clear his friend’s name and help his family.

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  • Gallery: 2004 – December – Leaving Policy, first snow, and Christmas in PeterboroughSeptember 23, 2023
    Paul leaving policy branch at CIDA, Tristan and Gabriel playing on the keyboard, first snow of the year in Ottawa, and Christmas in Peterborough
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    Some new art for our house from an art festival in Westboro, a Remembrance Day potluck, and Paul’s graduation from Carleton with his MA (Public Policy)
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    Thanksgiving at the cottage, autumn leaves on Parkdale, saying goodbye to Brodie at CIDA, and pumpkin carving
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    Hot air balloon ride in Ottawa, over Carleton, Uplands, and the airport

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