As mysterious and fun a caper as you will ever read, with plenty of misdirection and intrigue to keep you guessing.
Doubleday
9780385546553
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Doubleday
9780385546553
As mysterious and fun a caper as you will ever read, with plenty of misdirection and intrigue to keep you guessing.
Debut author Stephen Spotswood’s Fortune Favors the Dead introduces us to detective Lillian Pentecost and her right-hand woman/chronicler, Willowjean Parker, a mid-1940s pair that resembles a gender-swapped Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin.
Their investigation into the murder of prominent New York City matriarch Abigail Collins—found with her head bashed in inside her late husband’s locked-from-the-inside study—almost…
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