Monday, November 26, 2018

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop; Look Alive Twenty-Five

I know, I haven't reread any Perry Masons in awhile, but I woke up super early the other day and didn't feel like reading any of the approximately 5,000 books I have checked out, so I finished a Perry Mason I started months ago and almost finished but set aside when I got busy. Perry is visited by a man claiming to be a bishop who is looking for a young woman who was adopted. Her biological grandfather is very wealthy, and is being hoodwinked by an impostor posing as his granddaughter. The bishop wants the real granddaughter to get the inheritance that's coming to her. 
Janet Evanovich's latest Stephanie Plum "Look Alive Twenty-Five" was all right, not as good as some of the others that have come out recently. Vince orders Stephanie and Lulu to go work at a deli he inherited when a man he posted bond for skipped. Rather than sell the deli, he decides to keep it and have them run it, see if he can make a profit. Of course Stephanie and Lulu are just as terrible at running a deli as you can imagine, and it's compounded by the fact that the managers keep disappearing under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind only a shoe. Stephanie has the brilliant idea of setting herself up as bait to be kidnapped so she can solve the mystery. The ending was a cliffhanger, and actually pretty good.

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