Getting Away With Murder - Hardcover

Engel, Howard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670860786 ISBN 13: 9780670860784

Publisher: Viking Canada (AHC), 1995

Synopsis

In his most baffling case yet, Benny Cooperman is snug in his bed in quiet Grantham, a town near Niagara Falls, when three unsavory thugs drag him out of bed and present him like a trophy to notorious crime boss, Abram Wise, "the biggest crook in North America who's never been to prison." Someone has made two attempts on the gangster's life and he wants Benny to investigate. An expert in offers you can't refuse, Wise convinces a reluctant Benny to take the case.

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About the Author:

HOWARD ENGEL is the creator of the enduring and beloved detective Benny Cooperman, who, through his appearance in 12 bestselling novels, has become an internationally recognized fictional sleuth. Two of Engel s novels have been adapted for TV movies, and his books have been translated into several languages. He is the winner of numerous awards, including the 2005 Writers Trust of Canada Matt Cohen Award, the 1990 Harbourfront Festival Prize for Canadian Literature and an Arthur Ellis Award for crime fiction. Howard Engel lives in Toronto.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Having dispatched a trio of strong silent types to Grantham p.i. Benny Cooperman's bedside to get his attention and deliver him to a previously unannounced meeting, Abram Wise, Canada's greatest unconvicted crook, tells Benny that somebody's been making a series of attempts on his life, and that Benny is hereby elected to head the killer off. Who wants to see Wise dead? Only his two ex-wives, waitress Paulette Staples and teacher Lilian Wise; their respective children, underachieving Hart Staples and clotheshorse Julie Wise; and half the Ontario constabulary. But Benny's attention fastens instead on a 40-year-old murder case his friend McKenzie Stewart has just written up in a true-crime book: the conviction of Mary Tatarski, the next-to-last woman to be executed in Canada after a second unseen burglar fortuitously killed her mother five years after a first break-in left her father dead--an especially timely case to be ventilating again since Ed Neustadt, the retired cop who headed the investigation that sent Mary to the gallows, has just given McStu's book a big publicity boost by getting himself murdered. Benny's return (A Victim Must Be Found, 1988, etc.) is an amiable retro puzzler marked by endless rounds of Q-and-A with the unmemorable suspects, much of it clever but none of it believable for a moment. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Canada (AHC)
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0670860786
• ISBN 13: 9780670860784
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272