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Summary: Guinevere included .....
Review: A long time reader of Elizabeth Peter's Amelia Peabody series, I found The Camelot Caper to be a good change of pace. As a trained archeologist, Peters's books are always a good combination of realisitic history and imaginative mystery.In The Camelot Caper, young American Jessica Tregarth is summoned to England by an elderly grandfather whom she has never met. On the outs with her father and his son, Grandpa has to wait while Jess dodges two unsavory characters who harass and threaten her across jolly old England. Along the way she meets David Randall, a young writer of suspense novels, who helps Jess in sorting out the whys and wherefores of the chase and manages to fall in love with her, too. The chase was something of a drag, but the moment they pull up in front of the old family homeplace in Cornwall, the excitement escalates. A dreary, decrepit old manor house, complete with a now deceased Grandpa, sets an excellent scene for the unmasking of the two unsavory characters and the explanation for the cross-country stalking. As with any book written decades ago, the time warp issue becomes a factor. It was rather enjoyable to try to picture the clothing the characters were described as wearing. All in all, this is a solid, interesting suspense novel. An enjoyable read!
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Summary: Guinevere included .....
Review: A long time reader of Elizabeth Peter's Amelia Peabody series, I found The Camelot Caper to be a good change of pace. As a trained archeologist, Peters's books are always a good combination of realisitic history and imaginative mystery. In The Camelot Caper, young American Jessica Tregarth is summoned to England by an elderly grandfather whom she has never met. On the outs with her father and his son, Grandpa has to wait while Jess dodges two unsavory characters who harass and threaten her across jolly old England. Along the way she meets David Randall, a young writer of suspense novels, who helps Jess in sorting out the whys and wherefores of the chase and manages to fall in love with her, too. The chase was something of a drag, but the moment they pull up in front of the old family homeplace in Cornwall, the excitement escalates. A dreary, decrepit old manor house, complete with a now deceased Grandpa, sets an excellent scene for the unmasking of the two unsavory characters and the explanation for the cross-country stalking. As with any book written decades ago, the time warp issue becomes a factor. It was rather enjoyable to try to picture the clothing the characters were described as wearing. All in all, this is a solid, interesting suspense novel. An enjoyable read!
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Summary: Buy This Book!!!!
Review: Elizabeth Peters shows once again that she is the best in mystery writing. Her characters are compelling and she always makes you laugh. In addition, you will fall in love with her heros and see yourself in her heroines! She also writes under the name Barbara Michaels. (Her real name is Barbara Mertz.) Under any name, she is one of my all time favorite writers!
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Summary: M. Green, NY. A rating number is N/A to this review.
Review: Elizabeth Peters' adventure novels are amusing, intelligent, and marvelously successful at spoofing their genre while providing all the pleasures of the real thing. In her recent novels particularly Ms. Peters has taken the classic Mary Stewart-style adventure/romance and turned it into witty, literate pieces of fluff that even a 1990's romantic can wholeheartedly enjoy. No one, on reading the perfectly balanced immodesty (in all senses of the word) of Ms. Peters' latest heroes and heroines, need feel that they are subverting their feminist ideals, or feel obliged to adopt the resolute blinkers needed to enjoy the charming but socially distressing romances of , say, Georgette Heyer (whose unspoken assumptions about class, gender and race would, if met face-on, deeply offend just about any American today). The Camelot Caper was one of Ms. Peters earlier ventures, and while it is picture-perfect with its spoof it hadn't, in the late 1960's, quite broken through a certain passive cast to the heroine that was once endemic to these sorts of stories. It did, however, introduce a highly amusing, rather attractive villain whose name will evoke whoops of delight from fans of the superb art historian-turned-amateur-detective series most recently embodied in Ms. Peters' Night Train to Memphis. For that alone (though there is also some very funny dialogue), this book is definitely worth a first or a return read.
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Summary: Non-stop fun, but...
Review: I have to put my two-cents in on the question of the heroine's qualities. I happened to read this book at the same time as Mary Stewart's "The Gabriel Hounds" (both books written in the late 60's) and I found the heroines curiously similar. There can be no doubt about their courage, but they both appeared to be somewhat mentally deficient in comparison with their male counterparts. In both books, the boyfriends seem to figure things out on their own and withhold the information from the girlfriends, who only slowly and painfully begin to understand what's going on. The technique tends to keep the reader in a bit more suspense, but, as a male reader with a lot of experience in reading suspense stories with female protagonists, I found myself rather irritated that the heroines both seemed to be so dim-witted. Given a heroine who made more of a contribution to the solution of the mystery, this book would easily have been at least four stars for me.
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Summary: Non-stop fun, but...
Review: I have to put my two-cents in on the question of the heroine's qualities. I happened to read this book at the same time as Mary Stewart's "The Gabriel Hounds" (both books written in the late 60's) and I found the heroines curiously similar. There can be no doubt about their courage, but they both appeared to be somewhat mentally deficient in comparison with their male counterparts. In both books, the boyfriends seem to figure things out on their own and withhold the information from the girlfriends, who only slowly and painfully begin to understand what's going on. The technique tends to keep the reader in a bit more suspense, but, as a male reader with a lot of experience in reading suspense stories with female protagonists, I found myself rather irritated that the heroines both seemed to be so dim-witted. Given a heroine who made more of a contribution to the solution of the mystery, this book would easily have been at least four stars for me.
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Summary: Camelot Caper
Review: I love the Amelia Peabody stories and the other books that Ms. Peters has written, but Camelot Caper is a big disappointment. The story just doesn't flow well and is definitely not up to the standard of her other books.
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Summary: Elizabeth Peters is better than this
Review: I loved every Elizabeth Peters book I had ever read until this one. She is one of my favorite authors and I am a huge King Arthur fan. My expectations were high. The book was horrible. The plot was loose and the writing was like a bad romance novel. The only good parts were the descriptions of the towns and sights in the Enlgish countryside. From the copywrite this must be one of Ms. Peters early books. She should be ashamed to leave it in print. This is the only book that I ever bought that was so disapointing that it made me angry that I had spent money on it. (For some reason following this review it says it is for the audio version of th book only. I have never listened to the audio version. This is referencing the actual written book.)
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Summary: Hooked from the get-go!
Review: I really enjoyed this book. This was the second book I've read by Elizabeth Peter's (a.k.a. Barbara Mertz)and I was just simply hooked. I've been desperate to go back to England and see for myself the vivid landscapes that she writes about in this book. I loved the banter between Jessica and David. If you are an Anglophile, you will love this one.
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Summary: Took a while to get good....
Review: I was bored in the beginning---was this a book on touring English cathedrals/churches or a mystery? Wait---was it a mystery? It was in the mystery section.... Well, it starts out real slow. I suggest skipping the rambling parts. This story is very witty, however, which seems to make up for all the drag. The story doesn't really take off until about 3/4 into the book. I don't know what we're really doing until then.... Entertaining story eventually.... this review is a compliment to the story......going off in to nowhere. But I disagree with a previous reviewer---I think our heroine was a strong female for the late '60s. Also, I was impressed at how well the story has managed to stay "undated" with 30 years under its belt. I'm impressed with the heroine and the tale, but overall---"The Camelot Caper" is-----OK....!
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