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The Beggar's Opera Paperback - 2012

by Peggy Blair


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In beautiful, crumbling Old Havana, Canadian detective Mike Ellis hopes the sun and sand will help save his troubled marriage. He doesn't yet know that it's dead in the water--much like the little Cuban boy last seen begging the Canadian couple for a few pesos on the world famous Malecon. For Inspector Ricardo Ramirez, head of the Major Crimes Unit of the Cuban National Revolutionary Police, finding his prime suspect isn't a problem--Cuban law is. He has only seventy-two hours to secure an indictment and prevent a vicious killer from leaving the island. But Ramirez also has his own troubles to worry about. He's dying of the same dementia that killed his grandmother, an incurable disease that makes him see the ghosts of victims of unsolved murders. As he races against time, the dead haunt his every step ...

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  • Title The Beggar's Opera
  • Author Peggy Blair
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition 1st
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books Canada, Toronto
  • Date 2012
  • ISBN 9780143179979 / 0143179977
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 1 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Caribbean
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012379200
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Quill & Quire, 01/01/2012, Page 34

About the author

Peggy Blair was a lawyer for more than thirty years. Her critically acclaimed mystery The Beggar's Opera won the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize Readers' Choice contest and was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger Award. The Poisoned Pawn is the second in the Inspector Ramirez series. Peggy lives in Ottawa.
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