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Sto caricando le informazioni... Mildred Pierced (2003)di Stuart M. Kaminsky
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"A page-turning romp" from the Edgar Award-winning author featuring a nutty dentist, a killer crossbow, and Joan Crawford in 1940s Hollywood (Booklist, starred review). Mildred Minck is an unremarkable woman--until one tragic night in June 1944 when she becomes the first citizen of Los Angeles to be murdered by crossbow. The prime suspect is her husband, dentist Sheldon Minck, who's found standing over her body with the weapon in hand, raving that only Joan Crawford can identify the killer. It seems like a natural insanity defense, but Sheldon wants his neighbor, private investigator Toby Peters, to prove his innocence. The dentist is telling the truth about one thing: Joan Crawford was there. The steely silver screen beauty is in the middle of a comeback, about to star in a film noir based on a James M. Cain novel, and insists Peters keep her name out of the papers. In exchange, the glamorous eyewitness points the sleuth toward the Survivors of the Future, a band of crackpot survivalists that the dentist was hoping to join. Sheldon's new friends want him sprung, but only because they want him dead . . . With its "irresistible" title, Edgar Award winner Stuart M. Kaminsky's penultimate Toby Peters mystery shines a spotlight on the legendary screen diva as well as one of the favorite supporting characters of the series (The Washington Post). Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Toby has another reason for his interest in the case, namely that Sheldon Minck, the hapless dentist he shares an office with, stands accused of murdering his wife, Mildred, while supposedly practicing archery. He doesn't know why Sheldon loved Mildred, but he knows he did. So there must be something else going on. Besides, he knows Sheldon couldn't hit the side of a barn from inside the barn, unless he was aiming at something else.
One can sense during the course of the novel that Kaminsky is wrapping up the Toby Peters series. Not only does Mildred Minck, a continuing character, die, but so does the wife of Toby's brother, a Los Angeles cop and a frequent Toby ally and nemesis. By the end of the novel, the brother has left the police force and joined Toby's detective agency. And then Sheldon comes into a lot of money when one of his outlandish inventions actually works. So either the series must be ending or it must be taking off in a new direction. Unfortunately it was the former.
Before his death in 2009, Kaminsky wrote several more mysteries in his other series, including the Abe Lieberman books and the Inspector Rostnikov books, but just one more Toby Peters mystery. They are all great fun, but “Mildred Pierced,” along with “A Fatal Glass of Beer” (featuring W.C. Fields) ranks among the best. ( )