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An elderly woman is almost assaulted at a bus stop in Vancouver. A cop happens by and the criminal flees. The woman, who seems to be non compos mentis, also runs. The policeman chasing her has a heart attack and dies by the dumpster of a Chinese Restaurant. A ditzy home care nurse (Trina Button) almost hits the crazy woman (Janet Thurgood) with her car. Trina abandons her car in the middle of the road, causing a pile-up (and also losing her car) in order to chase Janet. She goes to the police station to ask for help in finding Thurgood, but the police are sure that Janet caused the policeman's death. Meanwhile, Thurgood doesn't know where she is. She keeps repeating a name and address in England to herself, thinking that is where she has to go. She is actually an escapee from a religious sect based just outside of Vancouver. Trina finally catches up with Janet, brings her home, and phones a friend in England, Daphne Lovelace, asking her to track down that address. There is also a man in France, on leave from Scotland Yard, trying to write a novel. Chief Inspector David Bliss is having difficulty with his book on the truth behind the MAN IN THE IRON MASK, and trying to fend off a French real estate agent, who is sure he is the man for her, when Daphne phones him for advice. This is apparently the seventh novel in the Inspector Bliss series. If the other six were as silly and confused as this one, then I have lost nothing by not reading them. I usually find something to like in Canadian books -- endearing characters, wonderful scenery, nasty comments about the US, and so on. I found nothing like that in this book, just a plot that was so bizarre, I didn't care about any of it.
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, November 2005
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