book review: a trial of one of Mary E. Martin
An author who sets out to write a trilogy, that is, the less ambitious, to maintain character major in three books requires some very complex plot manipulations. Mary Martin has succeeded in a big way. According to a close the Osgoode Trilogy. In a book we meet our intrepid, yet unlikely hero Harry Jenkins, a very average lawyer, practicing in a law firm very small and very bland. When his partner dies suddenly he is the captain of the ship, but where is the boat going? Now work is theirs to make.
Travel Final Paradox continues the saga of Harry, discovers that a huge fraud was perpetrated years ago, millions of dollars disappeared into a scam of medical research, and their largest customers Norma Dinnick exhibiting Tell Tale Signs of dementia Harry confused. Is it a victim of fraud, or a partner in crime?
In a trial of a of these mysteries, and there are several interwoven and cleverly executed plot twists, all gradually come together. Our hero Harry is once again caught in the needs of its customers. Dinnick Standard has been incarcerated in a mental institution having been found not guilty by insanity due to the onset of Alzheimer's for murder. On her travels she rarely speaks of lucidity in a huge fortune that rightly belongs to it. Harry not only acting as your attorney, legal guardian but feels compelled to investigate. The own fortunes seems real, but it is ill-gotten gains of fraud, or money to be won fairly? A shell company called raised more than $ Elixacorp $ 30 million, but where is the money now?
Although all the original players in the fraud scheme are dead, a man he still has a driving interest in the spoils, Dr. Robert Hawke. Is the genius doctor, or a crazy maniac? That is the question we face. Not Harry will need long to realize that Dr. Hawke is a dangerous adversary. Dr. Hawke is investigating a new drug that can treat and even reverse the ravages of Alzheimer's. This could be the most important advance in medical science for many years. Research takes money, however, and Dr. Hawke argues that the money Harry Jenkins intended to be raised legally, and was specifically for Alzheimer's research. Harry Jenkins must also deal with the distraught widow of his dead comrade. Dorothy Crawford is convinced that her husband Richard was poisoned, and fatal stroke, was simply the result. And the murderer is someone who just knows that the first 'P'
According to one is a cracking read, to call a page turner not do it justice. What I really liked was that even through it is part of a trilogy that exists by itself. It is not necessary to have read the previous books to understand the plot or the characters involved. The characters are well developed and rich in texture.
The story moves from Toronto to Vienna, to London, each step becomes more dangerous for Harry.
This is an interesting book and operates in several different levels. This is not your standard-setting action, adventure, and by any stretch of the imagination. One of the subplots involves sex, well actually not quite true, it comes to sexuality, and certainly is reflection.
Maybe a trilogy is the ideal number of books to work a character, then go ahead. Even famous best selling authors have fallen into the trap of using a character, an example is the author Tom Clancy who worked his character Jack Ryan, until it became a joke. Mary Martin has done that, in fact I'm sure she could use a couple more times. Certainly, if she was, I would be giving serious thought to it.
This is a great book, and you can get your own copy from Amazon, there is also an interesting website, The Osgoode Trilogy, support for the trilogy.
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