The third outing for the Gumshoe Ghost is just as complicated as the last entry (Dying for the Past, 2015, etc.) and even...
Oliver Tucker may be dead, but he’s still a heck of a homicide detective.
After his death, Tuck continues to hang around Winchester, Virginia, keeping an eye on the only two living people who can hear him: his wife, Angel, a professor of American history, and his former partner, Bear Braddock. When Angel walks in on a bank robber, she’s saved by handsome, debonair Franklin Thorne, a bank employee. Inside the bank annex is a hidden vault that contains the body of bank chairman William Mendelson, who had sent Angel an email asking for a meeting. Although Tuck has only two living helpers in clearing up the mystery of Mendelson’s death, he gets tips from the spirit world in the form of his grandfather, a former OSS agent. Tuck, who has the ability to get flashbacks from touching bodies and objects, is sent back to World War II Cairo, where his grandfather hunted German spies and where Mendelson and his friends helped themselves to valuable antiquities. Mendelson’s son has major gambling debts; head teller Karen Simms claims the chairman was moving large sums of money around; and a vengeful Egyptian woman arrives claiming to be looking for the stolen artifacts. Tuck has plenty of suspects with motives rooted deep in the past, but his most disturbing problem is dealing with Angel, who loves him deeply but needs to get on with her life.
The third outing for the Gumshoe Ghost is just as complicated as the last entry (Dying for the Past, 2015, etc.) and even slower-moving. But the dynamic between Tuck and Angel keeps up the interest.Pub Date: Jan. 8, 2016
ISBN: 978-0-7387-4207-6
Page Count: 384
Publisher: Midnight Ink/Llewellyn
Review Posted Online: Oct. 19, 2015
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 2015
This ran in the S.E.P. and resulted in more demands for the story in book form than ever recorded. Well, here it is and it is a honey. Imagine ten people, not knowing each other, not knowing why they were invited on a certain island house-party, not knowing their hosts. Then imagine them dead, one by one, until none remained alive, nor any clue to the murderer. Grand suspense, a unique trick, expertly handled.
Pub Date: Feb. 21, 1939
ISBN: 0062073478
Page Count: 272
Publisher: Dodd, Mead
Review Posted Online: Sept. 20, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1939
SEEN & HEARD
An anodyne visit with Tricia and her friends and enemies hung on a thin mystery.
Too much free time leads a New Hampshire bookseller into yet another case of murder.
Now that Tricia Miles has Pixie Poe and Mr. Everett practically running her bookstore, Haven’t Got a Clue, she finds herself at loose ends. Her wealthy sister, Angelica, who in the guise of Nigela Ricita has invested heavily in making Stoneham a bookish tourist attraction, is entering the amateur competition for the Great Booktown Bake-Off. So Tricia, who’s recently taken up baking as a hobby, decides to join her and spends a lot of time looking for the perfect cupcake recipe. A visit to another bookstore leaves Tricia witnessing a nasty argument between owner Joyce Widman and next-door neighbor Vera Olson over the trimming of tree branches that hang over Joyce’s yard—also overheard by new town police officer Cindy Pearson. After Tricia accepts Joyce’s offer of some produce from her garden, they find Vera skewered by a pitchfork, and when Police Chief Grant Baker arrives, Joyce is his obvious suspect. Ever since Tricia moved to Stoneham, the homicide rate has skyrocketed (Poisoned Pages, 2018, etc.), and her history with Baker is fraught. She’s also become suspicious about the activities at Pets-A-Plenty, the animal shelter where Vera was a dedicated volunteer. Tricia’s offered her expertise to the board, but president Toby Kingston has been less than welcoming. With nothing but baking on her calendar, Tricia has plenty of time to investigate both the murder and her vague suspicions about the shelter. Plenty of small-town friendships and rivalries emerge in her quest for the truth.
An anodyne visit with Tricia and her friends and enemies hung on a thin mystery.Pub Date: Aug. 13, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-9848-0272-9
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Berkley
Review Posted Online: May 26, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 2019
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