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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Now-And-Then Detective (Jack Starkey Mysteries)di William Wells
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"Retired Chicago homicide detective Jack Starkey is living his retirement dream in Fort Myers Beach, a little town on Florida's Southwest Gulf Coast, where he owns a bar called The Drunken Parrot and resides on a houseboat named Phoenix. Jack's friend, Chicago Tribune police reporter William Stevens, writes a series of best-selling crime novels based upon Jack's career and pays Jack to edit them to make certain all the cop stuff is right. But, every now and then, life in paradise can get a bit boring, so Jack agrees to help local police departments with murder investigations. When Henry Wilberforce, an 82-year-old Chicago billionaire, is murdered execution-style in his winter home in nearby Naples, Jack takes on the case. He finds that Henry had recently been behaving strangely, dressing in costumes and giving away large amounts of his money randomly. Henry's wife and son are deceased. His only living relatives are a nephew, Slater Babcock, a trust-fund slacker in Santa Monica, California, and two nieces, June Dumont, who is married to a prominent Washington, D.C., attorney, and Libby Leverton, the wife of a prominent Boston real estate developer. Henry hasn't been in touch with them for many years. A prime rule of a murder investigation is to ask: Who benefits? With no other suspects in sight, Jack wonders if any one of the cousins, or all of them acting in concert, and who must assume they are their uncle's heirs, need his money badly enough to hire a hitman to stop Henry from giving away "their" money. Jack's investigation takes him to Santa Monica, Washington, and Boston, where dead-ends and false leads make The Case of the Dead Philanthropist one of the most challenging Jack Starkey has ever faced"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyVotoMedia:
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In this novel, this particular call has Jack investigating the relatives of a dead philanthropist. The philanthropist was murdered, and his fortune won’t go to those relatives. But perhaps they didn’t know…, or perhaps they hope…
It’s not that the plot is complex, though it takes Jack Starkey far from his present comfort zone. And it’s not that the threat is overly ominous. But the novel’s a true page-turner because of its voice. Jack Starkey’s narration meanders convincingly, offering social commentary and humorous asides, with an amusingly modern tone. He uses his “cell phone to connect with my sleuthing partner Google.” He eats donuts with an old friend who knows where to keep a secret stash. And he asks all the right questions, pondering the answers, and delving through false leads. “Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you,” just now and then.
Disclosure: I was given a preview edition by the publisher and I really enjoyed it. I love this series. I love this voice! ( )