Review: The Case of the Locked Drawer - Larry Winebrenner
Today's Review is written by my Guest Reviewer "Margitte" here on The Phantom Paragrapher.
Review: The Case of the Locked Drawer: A Henri Derringer Mystery - Larry Winebrenner - July 2011.
What if 96 is the new 66 and it can be proven? Well let's see:
there is Ida Herbert, the 96-year old yoga teacher who made the Guinness Book of Records; Phyllis Sues, 90-year old dancer and musician; Los Angeles blogger Barbara "Cutie" Cooper(96), a bestseller on Amazon; Pullitzer prize-winning author, Herman Wouk(96) who sold his latest novel The Lawgiver to Simon & Schuster; Author James Arrudra Henry who learnt to read at 96; George Dawson(103), who at the age of 98 became America's poster child for literacy and co-wrote his life story Life is so Good. Just Google, the list is impressive!
This information fueled my curiosity at the start of the book. I wanted to believe in the story and did some reading before I started.
The Case of the Locked Drawer - a Henri Derringer Mystery was not totally a thumb-sucking grapple into What if.... at all! The nonagenarians, 92-year old Etta, and her 96-year old husband, Randy, took off where Murder She Wrote, and Knightrider and his talking car, K.I.T.T. threw in the towels a very long time ago. But the character Sophia Petrillo in The Golden Girls persisted in my head space as a possible twin to Henrietta Dessinger! I just could not get the picture to go away.
Etta was a private investigator who saved herself from boredom, by quietly doing her amateur meddling into open and shut murder cases on her computer. She would solve them all and have the authorities choking on their expensive, but useless computer data.
Circumstances led Etta, with the help of a few trusted friends and family, to team up with the devil in disguise - Mephistopheles. In folklore he was the devil to whom Faust sold his soul, remember? In her next challenge to solve the two-year old Underwood murder mystery -disguised as her alter ego Henry Derringer, things will be very... oh so very... different...
She was already doing a lot more on computers than playing games, when this super computer entered her life. She already created bogus email addresses, ping-ponging all over the place, avoiding detection by the local and national authorities, using ingenious methods to get results. Mephistopheles would be the super tool which would not only work in the background, often in the dark, to trap liars and baddies, he would take her abilities to an impressive higher level to save her retirement village and town from the villains. The much advanced results would be "based on technological achievements - fingerprints, photographs, data storage and retrieval. And they all had their place in the scope of things." But Henry Derringer was not ready to sell his soul to the dark forces just yet. With human ingenuity Henry would change the game as only Etta would now how.
The Underwood-murder investigation will become much much more than anyone ever anticipated...
The wit is contagious; the plot promises lots of adventurous drama, and a wheelchair will become a weapon in disguise. The characters are lovable and believable. The entire story makes Ninety plus an age to aspire to thanks to the Derringers. If our genes agree, there is a delightful adventure lying ahead but you will have to read this book to dream on....
I just love the idea!
there is Ida Herbert, the 96-year old yoga teacher who made the Guinness Book of Records; Phyllis Sues, 90-year old dancer and musician; Los Angeles blogger Barbara "Cutie" Cooper(96), a bestseller on Amazon; Pullitzer prize-winning author, Herman Wouk(96) who sold his latest novel The Lawgiver to Simon & Schuster; Author James Arrudra Henry who learnt to read at 96; George Dawson(103), who at the age of 98 became America's poster child for literacy and co-wrote his life story Life is so Good. Just Google, the list is impressive!
This information fueled my curiosity at the start of the book. I wanted to believe in the story and did some reading before I started.
The Case of the Locked Drawer - a Henri Derringer Mystery was not totally a thumb-sucking grapple into What if.... at all! The nonagenarians, 92-year old Etta, and her 96-year old husband, Randy, took off where Murder She Wrote, and Knightrider and his talking car, K.I.T.T. threw in the towels a very long time ago. But the character Sophia Petrillo in The Golden Girls persisted in my head space as a possible twin to Henrietta Dessinger! I just could not get the picture to go away.
Etta was a private investigator who saved herself from boredom, by quietly doing her amateur meddling into open and shut murder cases on her computer. She would solve them all and have the authorities choking on their expensive, but useless computer data.
Circumstances led Etta, with the help of a few trusted friends and family, to team up with the devil in disguise - Mephistopheles. In folklore he was the devil to whom Faust sold his soul, remember? In her next challenge to solve the two-year old Underwood murder mystery -disguised as her alter ego Henry Derringer, things will be very... oh so very... different...
She was already doing a lot more on computers than playing games, when this super computer entered her life. She already created bogus email addresses, ping-ponging all over the place, avoiding detection by the local and national authorities, using ingenious methods to get results. Mephistopheles would be the super tool which would not only work in the background, often in the dark, to trap liars and baddies, he would take her abilities to an impressive higher level to save her retirement village and town from the villains. The much advanced results would be "based on technological achievements - fingerprints, photographs, data storage and retrieval. And they all had their place in the scope of things." But Henry Derringer was not ready to sell his soul to the dark forces just yet. With human ingenuity Henry would change the game as only Etta would now how.
The Underwood-murder investigation will become much much more than anyone ever anticipated...
The wit is contagious; the plot promises lots of adventurous drama, and a wheelchair will become a weapon in disguise. The characters are lovable and believable. The entire story makes Ninety plus an age to aspire to thanks to the Derringers. If our genes agree, there is a delightful adventure lying ahead but you will have to read this book to dream on....
I just love the idea!
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