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title: "The Way of All Fish: A Novel"
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# The Way of All Fish: A Novel

**Brand:** martha grimes
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## Customer Reviews

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    If you're a Martha Grimes fan, wait for the paperback.  If you're not, find one of her other books.
  

*by A***A on Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2014*

This starts out much better than it finishes.  Had high hopes for it based on first couple of chapters, but after a while it was just silly.  I'd read her earlier book about the publishing industry, and thought some characters were her old "Jury" people plopped into New York and the publishing world.  This book is better, but may disappoint those who really like Martha Grimes and really want to like everything she writes.  The major focus of the book is a campaign to frighten a disagreeable literary agent.  It's never clear why someone who's supposed to be as tough and nasty as the agent is so terribly affected by the tricks other characters play on him.  A number of characters join in the plot, but it's also never really clear why, probably because the characters are very lightly sketched in.  The woman in whose name the plot against the agent is undertaken nearly disappears from the story until the end.  Ms. Grimes could probably have had a book that was more than okay if she'd put more time into it than she seems to have devoted to this one.  Maybe she was fulfilling a contract and was writing on a tight deadline, or maybe she's just getting tired of writing.  Either way, I really wish I'd waited for the paperback, or more reviews.

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    Watch your back Hiaasen!
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2014*

Watch your back Hiaasen! Why? Well, Martha Grimes has taken a brief trip to Florida and in has caressed the Everglades in her wonderful style of humor. If you're reading this and think, oh it's a Florida book, you'd be wrong, and it was cruel of me to mislead you. This wonderful book is about the zany justice two contract killers enact against an inscrutable agent. I can't without spoiling it tell you why they do it. Or how they drag characters from her previous work "Foul Matter" into it. But I am going to say this was so much fun to read that I had to have the book taken out of my hands (between chapter 47 and 48) because my laughter was keeping everybody awake. Who sleeps at 2AM?This is a sequel, but since it had been a while since I read "Foul Matter" it took me awhile until the plot of that book seeped into my consciousness. It wasn't forgettable, I just read a lot and fast.Martha writes the "Richard Jury Series," which I loved enough to crawl in between and under the West Palm Beach Library stacks to find the book that was missing but was supposed to be there.She is a lady and a humorist. She is a writer and a story teller. And she has my esteem.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A Great Vocabulary Builder
  

*by S***G on Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2020*

This is a very good satire of the publishing industry and genre authors. To enjoy the book, one caution is that you cannot be queasy about high school corridor language—the truly foul vocabulary of teenaged kids at school when grandma can’t hear them.  Please note that the strong language is completely consistent with the characters using it.  As always with Martha Grimes’s work, not one (foul or other) word is misplaced.  The Marx brothers could have easily worked this material into a “Night at the Opera II”.

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