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Title: Something of a mess . . .
Review: If you came to this book from the television series derived from Wingfield's books, brace yourself for a shock. The plot is messy, the characters rather sketchy at times, and Frost himself, far from being the amiable, sharp-tounged fellow embodied by David Jason, is a dirty-minded, insensitive, self-centered pig, the sort of fellow who puts the move on a missing child's mother when he discovers she is a part-time prostitute.There are also conincidences in the book, particularly a minor character that links both of the mysteries unfolding in the story, that stretch plausibility close to the breaking point. But there were obviously possibilities in both the story and the characters, possibilities that were realized much more fully when this novel reached television in the first TOF series in an episode entitled "Care and Protection."
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