No stars. Rounded up for completists only.For the love of Curt! ...and God! ...and books #4 You Have The Right To Remain Silent , #5 The Apostrophe Thief and #6 Fare Play ! : STAY AWAY !!!!/rant.This series was self-published and needed an editor. I've mentioned in the reviews for the pr...
Had searched for this author last century, then never read the one book I got. Was distracted during the first part of it. The constant rearranging of the crime scene was fun and very cinematic or TV-crime-show like. The suspects only became people once the cops met them. The references to classi...
Mystery featuring Enrico Caruso as an amateur detective during the tense premiere of The Girl of the Golden West at the Metropolitan Opera in 1910.
Christmas season at the Metropolitan Opera in 1920 features Enrico Caruso and Geraldine Farrar in a varied schedule of mostly Italian operas. For members of the Metropolitan chorus, however, the season's main feature is danger. An urn falls on the head of a soprano chorister in Samson and Delilah...
Paul wrote three books about Marian Larch before this one, but this is the first in which Marian's love interest Curt Holland appears. I first read this book probably about the time it was published, in 1992. I very much enjoyed it and the following three Marian Larch books (especially the last, ...
I'm not sure how I heard about this book. It is from 1981 and set in Pittsburgh, both of which I didn't know when I started it. It is quite dated...in the first chapter, a woman wakes up on the Schenley Park golf course not knowing how she got there, and puts a dime in the pay phone to call a cab...
Mystery set at the Metropolitan Opera with Geraldine Farrar and Enrico Caruso playing amaetur detective. An arrogant baritone is killed during a performance of Carmen in 1915.
When I found myself at Columbus Circle, I stopped: Sylvia Markey and Jake Steiner lived nearby. On impulse I turned on to Central Park South and walked until I came to their apartment building. I gave the doorman my name and asked if Jake Steiner was in. To my surprise, he was. The doorman hung u...
He was awake, though, and watching her. Marian stretched luxuriously and smiled, not wanting to think about getting up just yet. Holland touched her cheek. “All right?” “Never better. I’d like to stay here all day.” “Can you? I wouldn’t mind that myself.” She struggled to a sitting position. “You...
‘What is it? Did she say something?’ I asked. Roberta shook her head. ‘It’s just seeing Fiona in a place like this … it takes some getting used to, that’s all.’ I understood. Poor lady, she really looked upset. ‘Let’s go somewhere for, ah, coffee?’ ‘I’d rather have a drink.’ I took her to a place...
A sharp-eyed bluesuit riding in a patrol car spotted him coming out of Tiffany’s around one o’clock. The officer and his partner nailed him just as he was stopping a cab. A quick frisk revealed no weapon, but he was carrying a Tiffany box containing a pair of diamond earrings. Somewhere a woman w...
It distresses his friends, disappoints his enemies, and disconcerts the statistics-keepers. It also has a way of throwing a monkey wrench into other people’s plans. The television blithered away while I sat there alternating between cloud-nine ecstasy and snake-pit panic. Amos Speer was dead; tha...
Is that your remedy for everything? UNDERSHAFT: It is the final test of conviction, the only lever strong enough to overturn a social system, the only way of saying Must.… Your pious mob fills up ballot papers and imagines it is governing its masters; but the ballot paper that really governs is t...
The air was thick with exhaust fumes; a siren was wailing. Strangers jostled him, and an adolescent boy tried to sell him something. In his flight to avoid facing people, King found himself surrounded by them. He didn’t know where he was going. DennisDennisDennis his head pounded, and once in a w...
Connie’s mood began to lighten. I did not know if those two events were related or not. But one thing was certain, and that was that Connie was indeed coming out of her funk. Her period of mourning was by no means over; she’d still burst into tears whenever thoughts of Raymond grew too strong. Ni...
Anything that cut short her much-needed personal time was sufficient to raise her Irritation Quotient considerably; but when the interruption was a homicide, then maintaining an image of official cool became something she had to work at. A bigwig, the captain had said. Tread carefully. Marian Lar...
Sergeant Eberhart wasn't exactly sure what a television production manager did, but from the evidence of Leila Hudson's office it took a lot of paper to do it. The office was small and cramped, but it did have a window. One wall was covered with title graphics, another held a series of sketches o...