by T.J. MacGregor ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 17, 1994
If only Palm Beach PI Mike McCleary had told his wife and partner, Quin St. James (Storm Surge, 1993, etc.), that he was investigating the murder of Janis Krieger—he wouldn't be lying in the hospital, aphasic and unable to tell her where he's stashed the shoe box full of goodies provided by a coy informant self-named Blue Pearl. (All right, he probably would be lying there, but maybe she'd already know.) As it is, he'll just have to wait for her to suss out the reason for his drive-by shooting and hope that, with the help of their rough-hewn operative John Tark, she can dope out the connections among Krieger's widower, Chilean faith healer Alejandro Domingo; the Link Research & Development Center, whose Dr. Eden White had investigated Domingo two years ago; and the senatorial ambitions of a cereal- fortune heir. But what chance does the firm of St. James & McCleary have when the partners don't even know what we've known from the beginning—that Domingo's sister and daughter have been kidnapped to force his participation in a sinister plot that will give a whole new meaning to the laying on of hands—and when the forces of evil have established (unsurprisingly for MacGregor) a potent foothold in the US Marshal's Office? A hard-hitting, hairy-chested Florida slugfest, with manly St. James more than holding her own against the smooth tough guys who took out her husband.
Pub Date: Nov. 17, 1994
ISBN: 0-7868-6061-8
Page Count: 384
Publisher: Hyperion
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 15, 1994
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by Agatha Christie ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 28, 1934
A murder is committed in a stalled transcontinental train in the Balkans, and every passenger has a watertight alibi. But Hercule Poirot finds a way.
**Note: This classic Agatha Christie mystery was originally published in England as Murder on the Orient Express, but in the United States as Murder in the Calais Coach. Kirkus reviewed the book in 1934 under the original US title, but we changed the title in our database to the now recognizable title Murder on the Orient Express. This is the only name now known for the book. The reason the US publisher, Dodd Mead, did not use the UK title in 1934 was to avoid confusion with the 1932 Graham Greene novel, Orient Express.
Pub Date: Feb. 28, 1934
ISBN: 978-0062073495
Page Count: -
Publisher: Dodd, Mead
Review Posted Online: Sept. 20, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1934
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by Robert Goldsborough ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 19, 2020
The parts with Nero Wolfe, the only character Goldsborough brings to life, are almost worth waiting for.
In Archie Goodwin's 15th adventure since the death of his creator, Rex Stout, his gossipy Aunt Edna Wainwright lures him from 34th Street to his carefully unnamed hometown in Ohio to investigate the death of a well-hated bank president.
Tom Blankenship, the local police chief, thinks there’s no case since Logan Mulgrew shot himself. But Archie’s mother, Marjorie Goodwin, and Aunt Edna know lots of people with reason to have killed him. Mulgrew drove rival banker Charles Purcell out of business, forcing Purcell to get work as an auto mechanic, and foreclosed on dairy farmer Harold Mapes’ spread. Lester Newman is convinced that Mulgrew murdered his ailing wife, Lester’s sister, so that he could romance her nurse, Carrie Yeager. And Donna Newman, Lester’s granddaughter, might have had an eye on her great-uncle’s substantial estate. Nor is Archie limited to mulling over his relatives’ gossip, for Trumpet reporter Verna Kay Padgett, whose apartment window was shot out the night her column raised questions about the alleged suicide, is perfectly willing to publish a floridly actionable summary of the leading suspects that delights her editor, shocks Archie, and infuriates everyone else. The one person missing is Archie’s boss, Nero Wolfe (Death of an Art Collector, 2019, etc.), and fans will breathe a sigh of relief when he appears at Marjorie’s door, debriefs Archie, notices a telltale clue, prepares dinner for everyone, sleeps on his discovery, and arranges a meeting of all parties in Marjorie’s living room in which he names the killer.
The parts with Nero Wolfe, the only character Goldsborough brings to life, are almost worth waiting for.Pub Date: May 19, 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5040-5988-6
Page Count: 248
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Review Posted Online: March 1, 2020
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 15, 2020
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