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 enlarge | Author: Ann Rule
Publisher: Pocket
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 3346
Media: Mass Market Paperback
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Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 1416541608
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.15230973
EAN: 9781416541608
ASIN: 1416541608
Publication Date: December 26, 2007
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 Excellent May 19, 2008
Love Ann Rule's books, and I like these small case file stories more and more.
A panoramic true crime book April 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the first Ann Rule book that I have read.
She includes 7 cases that stretch from 1960 to the most current, the Winkler murder case.
The most intriguing for me was the oldest case. "The Antique Dealer's Wife" where Raoul Guy Rockwell undoubtedly murdered and dismembered his wife and step-daughter. He got away with it despite the dogged determination of the lead detective.
I found the case of Dorothy Jones a bizarre,unsolved mystery. There are two possible explanations and many reasons for believing either was the cause.
The chapter on the Winkler case leaves some questions unanswered.
There is no doubt that Mary Winkler killed her husband. The circumstances are unclear or at least,unproven.
"Smoke,Mirrors,and Murder" reads like a crime novel with both solved and unsolved murder cases. This is one of the better books in the true crime category that I have read to date and I can understand why readers like Ann Rule as an author. She's an excellent writer!
 Soggy March 15, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Rule's normally top-notch, formulatic TC books are always thrilling to read; this one, however, is limp and left me feeling cheated. No, it's not hasilty written; but rather open-ended. Rule has never before left her readers without an explanation, an outcome. Chapters such as "The Truckers' Wife" ask us to speculate on "Spontaneous Human Combustion" and never offers alternative theories, and very little investigation. As true crime, I was simply left unfulfilled.
More Ann Rule March 1, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the latest book in Ann Rule's True Crime Series. The Writings are not up to her usual High Standards. In each of the cases covered it seems the villian is all bad and the victim is all good, which is not the usual case in real life. The best story is in the last one covered, which is "The Minister's Wife". The latter is the story of the Minister's wife from Tennesseee who shot him in the back "in self defense". I was not aware that part of the reason for problems in the marriage is that she fell for one of these Nigerian inheritance schemes. I still find it hard to understand (As Ann Rule does)how anyone could believe that a complete stranger would give you thousands of Dollars. But I guess financially desperate people do desperate things. However the depiction of "The Minister's Wife" (for some reason) created sympathy for her (in me.) I was glad that she served a very short sentence, and was released. One of the things that made these cases unappealing is that most of them occurred many years ago, when life was so much different here in the USA. (No internet, PCs or Cell Phones.)
another home run February 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ann's insights on the Winkler case alone make this worth the purchase. But add into the mix the stories of several relationships gone bad, and you have a textbook of warning for women AND men. A great collection of shorter cases - not that the cases themselves are less important - but I do like this format because I can fit the reading into a busy mom's schedule.
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