Redemption Street: A Moe Prager Mystery - Hardcover

Coleman, Reed Farrel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670032913 ISBN 13: 9780670032914

Publisher: Viking, 2004

Synopsis

In 1981, Moe Prager, a former NYPD cop, licensed P.I., and wine shop owner, becomes drawn into the long-cold investigation into a 1966 hotel fire that killed seventeen people--including his first love--and finds himself following a trail through the decaying Catskill borscht belt, political corruption, dark secrets, and murder.

About this title

About the Author:

Reed Farrel Coleman is the author of Walking the Perfect Square, the first in the Moe Prager series.

From Publishers Weekly:

Set in 1981, Coleman's fast-paced sequel to Walking the Perfect Square (2002) will please fans of both hard-boiled and traditional mysteries. A retired cop with an inactive PI license, Prager is happily bored in his new incarnation as a Manhattan wine merchant, husband and new father. Residual ambivalence about his choice to help cover up the disappearance of his wife's beloved brother leads Prager to reconsider his initial refusal to take on another quest for a missing siblingā€"Arthur Rosen's search for the sister widely believed to have died in a fire at a Catskill resort 15 years earlier. When an arrogant and shadowy real estate magnate attempts to bribe him to refuse the case, Prager leaves his family and job to try to unearth the truth about the fatal blaze, which claimed 16 lives and was officially blamed on a careless bedtime smoker. He finds that the conflagration marked the point at which the small town of Old Rotterdam began its decline and that his questions stir up ill feeling from the locals, who include mysterious neo-Nazis and a group of Jews who call themselves the Yellow Stars. Prager's dogged pursuit leads to a satisfying and logical solution, while demonstrating Coleman's gift for blending a classic whodunit with a gritty, realistic procedural. Prager is a fascinating creation, believably grappling with his status as an unaffiliated and unobservant Jew, with ample room for greater growth.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0670032913
• ISBN 13: 9780670032914
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256