My Darling Detective
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    Mar-2017
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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 fiancee, 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 best.
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    • Mar-2018
    • Mariner
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1328916278
    • ISBN13: 9781328916273
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    • Apr-2017
    • Houghton Mifflin
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0544236106
    • ISBN13: 9780544236103
    • First Edition
    • Mar-2017
    • Houghton Mifflin
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0544237080
    • ISBN13: 9780544237087
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    • Mar-2017
    • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
    • eBook (Kindle)
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    • Mar-2017
    • Blackstone Audio, Inc.
    • Audible
    •  
    • Apr-2017
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1470862247
    • ISBN13: 9781470862244
    •  
    • Apr-2017
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1470862239
    • ISBN13: 9781470862237
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    • Apr-2017
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1470862220
    • ISBN13: 9781470862220



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