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Title details for The Whale's Footprints by Rick Boyer - Available

The Whale's Footprints

#5 in series

by Rick Boyer
Christopher Lane
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What starts as a pleasant summer on Cape Cod for Doc and Mary Adams turns suddenly chilling. When a house guest is murdered in his bed-with the very pills that control his epilepsy-their son Jack is the prime suspect. After all, Andy had been Jack's rival both at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and for the attention of a beautiful whale watcher named Alice.

The evidence is too damning to ignore, but an enraged Doc knows his son is innocent. he sets out to prove it, and his only clue is that the real murderer must have been very interested in the victim's top-secret lab work...

  • Creators

  • Series

    Doc Adams

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    May 9, 2006

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781481577458
      • File size: 269680 KB
      • Duration: 09:21:49

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Oral surgeon and sometime sleuth Doc Adams is especially motivated to solve a murder in which his own son is the prime suspect. Text and performance combine to create a slick surface with little underneath. The greatest fault is probably in the writing, which sounds like the mechanical stringing together of overworked formulas. Christopher Lane is a fairly competent young reader, but he doesn't bring enough richness or depth to Boyer's prose to lift it above the perfunctory. J.N. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 1, 1988
      Boyer's prose soars as he describes the shiny gray mammals we know as whales in the short prologue of this mystery, the fifth Doc Adams novel. Unfortunately, that is the best part of a lightweight story that eventually bogs down in silly dialogue and predictable situations. Summer study of the whales in Woods Hole brings Jack Adams and his roommate, Andy Cunningham, to visit the Adams cottage on Cape Cod. But Andy dies mysteriously and evidence points to Jack as the murderer. In endeavoring to clear Jack, his dad, interim county medical examiner Doc Adams, ferrets out surprising facts that alter the case. Jack's mother and her dishy friend, Janice, salt the dialogue with snappy, hip jargon, and while this helps keep the reader smiling it fails to distract from certain conversational redundancies. Doc Adams gives authority to an otherwise frothy mystery that may appeal to fans of Billingsgate Shoal , the opener of the series.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

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