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My Darling Detective
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Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction
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ISBN10: 1328916278
ISBN13: 9781328916273
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Mar 20 2018
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781328916273
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Mar 20 2018
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
[An] ingeniously plotted novel . . . Norman knows how to weave an enticing and satisfying mystery, one tantalizing thread at a time. -- New York Times Book Review A witty, engrossing homage to noir, from National Book Award finalist Howard Norman Jacob Rigolet, soon-to-be former assistant to a wealthy art collector, looks up from his seat at an auction--his mother, former head librarian at the Halifax Free Library, is walking almost casually up the aisle. Before a stunned audience, she flings an open jar of ink at master photographer Robert Capa's Death on a Leipzig Balcony. Jacob's police detective fiancée is assigned to the ensuing interrogation.
My Darling Detective delivers a fond nod to classic noir, as Jacob's understanding of the man he has always assumed to be his father unravels against the darker truth of Robert Emil, a police officer suspected of murdering two Jewish residents during an upswing of anti-Semitism in 1945. The denouement, involving a dire shootout and an emergency delivery--it's the second Rigolet to be born in the Halifax library in a three decades--is Howard Norman at his uncannily moving best. Norman works with an offhand ease and grace . . . Whimsy is balanced by moments of powerfully evoked realism. -- Washington Post An unconventional, lively literary mystery. -- Kirkus Reviews
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