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Cargando... El Ladrón de la Navidad / The Christmas Thief (2004)por Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, teams up with private investigator Regan Reilly to solve another Christmas mystery. A beautiful eighty foot blue spruce has been chosen as the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. The people who picked the tree don't have a clue that attached to one of its branches is a flask full of priceless diamonds that Packy Noonan, a scam artist, hid there twelve years ago. I am not a big fan of Mary HIggins Clark although I don't mind her daughter;s stuff (Carolyn HIggins Clark). They teamed up for this very simple read - don't expect anything in depth. I read this for a bookclub for our December meeting. This isn't a big group and no one seemed to like it at all and only a few of us read the entire book. I finished it, but it wasn't a long read. I did think the main idea of stealing the Rockerfeller Christmas tree was a fun idea. Audiobook performed by Carol Higgins Clark From the book jacket: Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, teams up with private investigator Regan Reilly to solve another Christmas mystery. This time the case involves an eighty-foot blue spruce that has been chosen as the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. The folks who picked the tree don’t have a clue that attached to one of its branches is a flask full of diamonds that Packy Noonan, a scam artist just released from prison, had hidden there over twelve years ago. My Reactions There’s not much holiday spirit in this slim volume; it is more a fun and entertaining comic crime caper than a mystery. The coincidences required for the plot to work stretch credulity a bit, but they do add to the suspense and enjoyment. I like this cast of characters: Alvirah and her husband, Willy; Regan and her fiancé, Jack, as well as her parents, Luke and Nora; and Alivirah’s friend Opal, a fellow lottery winner, who lost her money to Packy’s scam. And then there’s Packy and his band of incompetents: Jo-Jo, Benny and Milo. Carol Higgins Clark narrates the audio version. Her pacing is good, but the voices she used for the various characters just irritated me. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesRegan Reilly (7.5) Contenido enDistinciones
Alvirah y su marido Willy ganaron la lotería hace unos años y desde entonces se dedican a lo que más les gusta: las obras de caridad y resolver misterios. Para ello cuentan con Regan, la hija de unos amigos, casada con un inspector de policía. Los cuatro deciden ir a Vermont a ver cómo cortan el tradicional árbol de Navidad que decorará el Rockefeller Center de Nueva York. Con ellos va Opal, que también ganó la lotería pero perdió todo el dinero en manos de un estafador, Packy Noonan que está a punto de salir de la cárcel después de una condena de doce años. Packy escondió unos diamantes en un árbol situado en una propiedad de Vermont y, fuera de la cárcel de permiso y ayudado por dos hermanos gemelos llamados Benny y Jo, decide no volver y dirigirse directamente a Vermont. Allí descubren que el árbol elegido por el RC es el suyo y deciden ir por herramientas para cortarlo. Pero Wayne, un vecino del propietario del árbol elegido que, envidioso, está subido en él para cortarle algunas ramas y que no parezca perfecto, oye toda la conversación de los ladrones sobre los diamantes escondidos y mientras ellos van a buscar con qué cortarlo, se lleva el termo en la que están las piedras, aunque con las prisas olvida al pie del árbol un machete que lleva su nombre grabado. Los ladrones cortan el árbol, lo registran, y al no encontrar nada, vuelven al sitio en el que estaba plantado y encuentran el machete de Wayne. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Meanwhile, this tree was chosen by the Rockefeller Center in New York to be cut down this year for their Christmas tree. As it turns out Willie and Alvirah, and some good friends from New Jersey have all planned a trip to Stowe on the same weekend it was to be cut down.
Everyone was excited, and everyone was headed to Stowe, Virginia. Packy was being released from prison and was planning on cutting down the tree holding his diamonds. Willie and Alvirah were going to find the tree given to them to collect maple syrup from. And they were all going to get to see the tree cutting for this year's Christmas tree in New York.
This was a fast and actually pretty good little read. Although the ending was predictable, the story was cute and interesting. ( )