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Name of author/book? Main character: gentle housewife, recently widowed, becomes amateur sleuth. Anyone know? She's nearly middle-aged, lacking in confidence; sincere Anglican church member (NOT Agatha Raisin!); finds herself left reasonably well-off but people think she's much richer than she actually is, and would like her to fund the repair of the church roof, and she has to learn to say no; becomes amateur sleuth and only the Methodist minister actually thinks she's on to something; finally rescues a lad from a paedophile ring. Finale - they're locked together in a dark cupboard in a burning building, and she has a newly acquired mobile phone but does not know how to use it. However, the lad knows, it lights up (someone must have charged it for her!) and he calls in the cavalry. Yes, I remember the plot, yet don't know the name of the author or title of the book. I'd just like to know if there are any more from the same stable - having read and re-read all of Ellis Peters' Caedfael tales. | | Post this question at www.whatsthatbook.com. Hopefully, someone there will remember your book. | Is it time to do away with juries in our court rooms? Would you want a pack of housewives and ghetto thugs to decide if you need heart surgery? Or if you should get a root canal or not?
Would you want 12 amateurs to decide ANY important thing in your life?
It has been proven time and time again that jurors are incapable of doling out justice. Sure , 80% of the time, they might decide correctly, on open and shut cases..but many times, you have racist blacks who acquit black defendants no matter what, or you have idiots who rule against an entity just because they want to stick it to them, etc.
We need to have several thousand trained jurors who do nothing else, who are trained in law, ethics, historical common law, constitutional law, etc, and keep the toothless hags out of the goddam jury boxes.
Do you agree or not? | | Get a majority of voters to agree with you and you got it. |
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