Northern Tales: Traditional Stories of Eskimo and Indian Peoples, Norman Howard

Автор: Norman Howard
Название: My Darling Detective
ISBN: 1328916278 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781328916273
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 2068.00 р.
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Описание: " 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 fiancee 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

Автор: Howard Norman
Название: Bird Artist, The
ISBN: 0312130279 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312130275
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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Цена: 1747.00 р.
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