My Darling Detective
by Howard Norman
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0544236106
- ISBN 13
- 9780544236103
- Seller
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, March 2017. Hardcover. First Edition / Full number line. Very Good book in a Fine jacket. Gift inscription on front free endpage, otherwise Fine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 245 pages.
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 fiancée, Martha Crauchet, is assigned to the ensuing interrogation. In My Darling Detective, Howard Norman 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 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.
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 fiancée, Martha Crauchet, is assigned to the ensuing interrogation. In My Darling Detective, Howard Norman 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 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.
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- Bookseller
- Books of the World (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000000936
- Title
- My Darling Detective
- Author
- Howard Norman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0544236106
- ISBN 13
- 9780544236103
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- March 2017
- Pages
- 245
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- fiction, crime, dectective, murder, noir, suspense, thriller, Halifax, Canada
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Mystery, Suspense, Detective, Crime; Canada;
- Lccn
- 2016046954
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