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A witty, engrossing homage to noir from National Book Award finalist Howard Norman
Jacob Rigolet, a 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 black ink at master photographer Robert Capa's "Death on a Leipzig Balcony." Jacob's police detective fiancΓ©e, Martha Crauchet, is assigned to the ensuing interrogation. In My Darling Detective, Howard Norman delivers adelivers 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 Halifax police officer suspected but never convicted of murdering two Jewish residents during the shocking 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 Free Library in a span of three decades--is Howard Norman at his "provocative . . . haunting"* and uncannily moving best.
*Janet Maslin, New York Times
ISBN | 9780544236103 |
Categories | Crime, Fiction, Highlight, MIXnMATCH, Mystery and Thriller, New Arrivals |
Author(s) | Howard Norman |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
Pages | 256 |
Format | Hardcover |
Dimensions | 21.1cm x 2.8cm x 14.7cm |
Weight | 0.363 kg |