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Rhode Island Red (Mask Noir)
Voluntary Madness
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The Club of Queer Trades (Wordsworth Classics)
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Last Rites: A Stevie Houston Mystery
Take What You Want [LARGE PRINT]
Mad Hatter's Holiday: Unabridged [AUDIOBOOK]
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The Hound of the Baskervilles: Complete & Unabridged (Cover to Cover) [AUDIOBOOK]
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Swimming Cat Cove: An Allison O'Neil Mystery
Old Black Magic: A Robin Miller Mystery
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Airframe [AUDIOBOOK]
Road Rage [AUDIOBOOK]
Third Degree: A Cassidy James Mystery
When the Dancing Stops

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Nanette Hayes, A Fabulous New Impromptu Detective
Completely forgettable...
Blah
Worthy first effort
Dreadful,lame mystery

Rhode Island Red (Mask Noir Title)
Charlotte Carter
Manufacturer: Serpent's Tail
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1852425911

Customer Reviews:

Nanette Hayes, A Fabulous New Impromptu Detective.......2002-10-05

'Rhose Island Red' had been sitting on my bookshelf for about two years (all avid bibliophiles have such backlogs), but it was worth the wait. Charlotte Carter gives us Nanette Hayes, a fresh new voice in the world of detective fiction.

Nanette Hayes may be smart and sassy, but she's rather directionless. Armed with a master's degree in French, a love for Paris, a taste for Rimbaud, a refined palate on a beer budget, and a true love affair with jazz, she spends her days playing saxaphone on the streets of a New York that Ms. Carter captures so lyrically.

This novel reminded me of the seminal French film 'Diva', with all the plot twists and unusual characters - crooked cops, $60,000 stashed inside a saxaphone, an elegant yet aging criminal who worships Charlie Parker, and a no-nonsense exotic dancer with a taste for Wall-Street investments. Oh, and a gay lower-level mobster who becomes Nanette's confidente of sorts.

The story centers around the urban legend of the Rhode Island Red, a saxaphone that was supposedly given to Charlie Parker from a mobster as a bribe to play at a wedding. A saxaphone that was reportedly filled with heroin.

Charlotte Carter writes in the breezy rhythmic style of a jazz musician, and the book was a joy to savor. I can't wait to get my hands on the next book, 'Coq Au Vin'. Our heroine goes to Paris...ooh la la!

Completely forgettable..........2002-08-08

As a mystery-lover, I was excited about potentially finding a new character series to follow, but I had no success with this book. Carter's style is tiresome and contrived -- I found both the heroine and the plot cliched, overdone, and generally mediocre. It's rare that I read a book and think to myself, "Wow, this is really awful," but that's exactly what I was thinking throughout the entire read. I won't be investigating the sequel or any other Carter creations.

Blah.......2000-08-30

A weak plot and a protagonist I didn't care about made for an unsatisfying read. Carter's hero, Nanette, came across as far too contrived a character for me to get in to. She's a jazz freak, who's got a master's in French and passes her days busking with a sax on the streets of New York, and her best friend is a stripper--ooo, neat. The murder of an undercover cop in her apartment kicks things off, but it never goes anywhere that interesting. Might actually be better as a movie.

Worthy first effort.......1999-11-08

This book was good in that Nanette Hayes' character is one we haven't seen before. Any weakness the author shows in regards to plot are more than made up for with Nanette's character.

Dreadful,lame mystery.......1999-10-21

Can anyone get a book published today? This book gives proof that this is so. This is a terrible mystery novel, the writing is awful and plain lazy. The author barely moves from scene to scene without giving any background. It's just a complete boring mess. I hated the whole thing and wished I had never read it.

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