Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 fianc e 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
Title: My Darling Detective
Author(s): Norman Howard
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9781328916273
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/20/2018