Reviews for Tramp

The average rating for Tramp based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-07-30 00:00:00 David Smith I am currently reading Tramp by Marne Davis Kellogg. Tramp Marne Davis Kellogg Mystery 320 pages By turns sassy and tough, tender and vulnerable, Lilly, a no-longer-so-young Wyoming belle with degrees in criminology and toxicology, is a private investigator and the marshal of Bennett's Fort, a town owned literally lock, stock, and barrel by her cousin. Shod by Chanel, clad in designer' suits, and wearing ladylike white gloves, Lilly is an unlikely but highly efficient detective - as she proves when confronted with solving the murder by poisoning of Cyrus Vaile, the incredibly rich, disgustingly lecherous old patron of the local repertory theater. It happens on the night of his birthday celebration, in full view of Lilly and most of his repertory "family," any one of whom might have a pretty good motive for wanting Cyrus dead. And with so much flamboyant emotion obscuring the facts like a theatrical fog, it isn't easy for Lilly to cut through the glycerin tears and get at the unvarnished truth. In Lilly, her eccentric extended family (who made their money in two black crops - oil and Angus cattle), and her dashing suitor Richard Jerome (an ex-Morgan banker turned opera impresario and professional team-roper), Marne Davis Kellogg has invented a fascinating cast of ongoing characters.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-04-24 00:00:00 Alex Carter Lilly Bennett is a US Marshall in a fictional town supposedly located in western Wyoming. The town has a theater company, an opera company and office towers that no town in that part of the country could possibly support. The theater company has several people murdered during the course of the story. Of course, Lilly ably solves the murders in the end. I realize that this book was meant to be a farce, but it stretched credulity way beyond belief.