The Lottery Winner: Alvirah and Willy Stories

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Summary: A good, light read.
Review: "The Lottery Winner" is a compilation of 6 short stories and is ideal for the times that you're in the mood for picking up a book and enjoying a quick,light read with old friends Alvirah and Willie.Alvirah and Willie won the lottery several years ago but, unlike a lot of winners who find themselves out of money in a very short time, they have invested wisely and are thoroughly enjoying their retirement years in luxurious comfort. Alvirah, a former cleaner, has the knack of being in the right place at the wrong time and has developed into quite a sleuth, helping the police to solve murders and mysteries and sometimes finding herself in dangerous situations. Willie was a former plumber who adores his outgoing wife and tries to help her in her detective work to the best of his abilities.These 6 stories are quite diverse and just the thing to read if you have only 30 minutes or so to spare.I normally don't like short stories but these are an exception as I liked the main characters so much.

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Summary: 4 Millions dollars!
Review: "The Lottery Winner" is a compilation of 6 short stories and is ideal for the times that you're in the mood for picking up a book and enjoying a quick,light read with old friends Alvirah and Willie.Alvirah and Willie won the lottery several years ago but, unlike a lot of winners who find themselves out of money in a very short time, they have invested wisely and are thoroughly enjoying their retirement years in luxurious comfort. Alvirah, a former cleaner, has the knack of being in the right place at the wrong time and has developed into quite a sleuth, helping the police to solve murders and mysteries and sometimes finding herself in dangerous situations. Willie was a former plumber who adores his outgoing wife and tries to help her in her detective work to the best of his abilities.These 6 stories are quite diverse and just the thing to read if you have only 30 minutes or so to spare.I normally don't like short stories but these are an exception as I liked the main characters so much.

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Summary: 4 Millions dollars!
Review: A Review by Holli

Alvirah and her husband Will never really had the best life they didn't have very much money but they always seemed to manage. Alvirah always had high spirits she even got excited when they got one number on their lottery tickets to match. But the one that would change their life was they winning ticket they won four million dollars. So their life style changed to a very ritzy life in a hurry but they always kept their poorer roots with them. They moved near high powered people and celebrities. Alvirah also was on the Donahue show she works her dream job and her dream life.

Three things that I liked and didn't like about this book was the beginning it really doesn't grab you like most of her books do. It seems to drag on for a while just describing their life style what they look like and what they do and have done. I think that she would have put it in the middle to so you find out more and more as you go along. Then in the middle when it finally gets going it almost seems to go really fast and just zoom by you before you realized what happened. I liked how descriptive it was though Mary Higgins Clark always seems to have very descriptive books and they seemed to always just grab you from the beginning but this one was lacking that aspect.

This book was a great book overall! I recommend it to people that enjoy mysteries and have just a little patience for slow starting books but also can keep up when it starts moving along fast.

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Summary: The Use of Literary Devices in Mary Higgins Clark�s The Lott
Review: Ha ha ha this book is funny and clean...perfect little mystery! I highly recommend...love ya Mary higgins Clark you are a cool lady! You like rock...your books are awesome! This is the first one I've read and I'm hooked...I have bought at least 4 and am sharing them with my you go girls.

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Summary: The Lottery Winner
Review: I adore Mary Higgins Clark, I really do. But I just can't stand Willy and Alvirah.

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Summary: Lottery Winner's a winner!
Review: I love this suspenseful thriller It kept on the edge of my sit with each story. I could hardly put the book down. Mary Higgins Clark is a great mystery/suspense writer, which is why she is called the "Queen of Suspense." This book is a plus. If you haven't read it, you need to go and pick up this award-winning novel.

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Summary: Action pack and clean - Thanks
Review: I'm sorry I am not one to remember the titles of books and their authors (I read so many), but I do remember the stories that I've read. I went in search because I remember the characters in the book,and found what I was looking for. I truly like the book reference the lottery winners because it is a clean book and the characters do not forget from where they came.

I appreciate reading more like these.

Thank you.

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Summary: Another Thriller
Review: The book The Lottery winner is great. It has many different stories of Alvirah and Willy. They are the two main characters who won the lottery of forty million dollars. Alvirah and Willy are are always going on expensive trips and Alvirah gets into a lot of mischief on them. She likes to help solve murder cases and it sometimes gets her into some trouble. Her husband Willy, once a plumber, on the other hand trys to keep out of other peoples lives. His trusting personality gets him into trouble though. Alvirah and Willy are a couple who has a lot of fun and scary moments together. This book will keep you in a lot of suspense.

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Summary: pretty good!!!!!!!!!
Review: The Lottery Winner by: Mary Higgins Clark The book is a collection of murder mysteries. My favorite section is "Bye-Bye Baby Bunting;" it is about a baby who is stolen from a hospital room. It is suspenseful, but short. My least favorite section is "The Lottery Winner;" it is about someone's stolen diamonds and Aliviah and Willy came to the rescue and turns out someone gets killed. It dragged on and got boring. Overall the book was good and I would recommend it to anyone who likes these types of books.

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Summary: The Lottery Winner by Mary Higgins Clark
Review: The Lottery Winner, by Mary Higgins Clark, is series of short stories about a couple the recently had won a forty million dollar lottery. Alvirah and Willy were the lucky couple. With their newfound money they take exotic trips and develop many friendships. Along with these trips Alvirah almost always stumbles upon a mystery, and always saves the day. In the Lottery Winner Mary Higgins Clark develops the two main characters superbly and in each of the short stories does an equally awesome job developing them. I really enjoyed her style of writing. Her fluency in switching viewpoints between the characters is phenomenal. Although this style of writing can be confusing, it keeps you guessing who did it.