Title: My Darling Detective
Author: Howard Norman
Published: 2017
Language: English
ISBN: 9781328916273
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Extension: EPUB
Size: 5 MB
Subjects: Fiction, Literature, Mystery
"[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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