Too Soon Dead: An Alexander Brass Mystery 1 - Softcover

Michael Kurland

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783295368 ISBN 13: 9781783295364

Publisher: Titan Books, 2015

Synopsis

NEW YORK CITY, 1935. NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST EXTRAORDINAIRE ALEXANDER BRASS NEEDS A STORY...

It all begins when a furtive tipster promises an explosive story and gives Morgan DeWitt—assistant to New York World celebrity newsman Alexander Brass—an envelope filled with photographs of the most compromising nature. When the tipster turns up murdered, Brass and his team resolve to find the killer, running the gauntlet of blackmailing Nazis, accommodating nymphomaniacs and US senators on the way...

About this title

About the Author:

MICHAEL KURLAND is the author of more than thirty novels, but is best known for his Edgar-nominated mystery series featuring Professor Moriarty, including The Infernal Device and The Great Game. He has also edited several Sherlock Holmes anthologies and written non-fiction titles such as How to Solve a Murder: the Forensic Handbook. He lives in Petaluma, California.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Beware of strangers bearing stacks of scandalously revealing photos they want to leave with you, even if they look really juicy--the oblivious principals include a US senator, a superior court judge, and a saintly philanthropist--and even if digging dirt is all in a day's work for you. Syndicated columnist Alexander Brass, based at the New York World, agrees to hold on to a sheaf of photos for his coyly unidentified informant, and the next thing you know, somebody's been murdered (and it's not the informant). His dander up--it's 1935, and Brass is the well- spoken sort of gent who might use a phrase like that--Brass conscripts recently widowed Cathy Fox, who's not exactly grief- stricken, to join his legman and amanuensis Morgan DeWitt in tracking down the photographer who snapped the poisonous pictures. In no time at all, the pair is knee-deep in a wash of blackmailing Nazis, preposterously unmotivated revelations, and gratuitous cameos (Lindbergh, Earhart, W.C. Fields). Sci- fi/suspense/nonfictioner Kurland (Star Griffin, 1987, etc.; How to Solve a Murder: the Forensic Handbook, not reviewed), aiming throughout for a puckish retro effervescence--think of Fred Astaire playing Archie Goodwin--ends up with a weightless jollity in which nothing (bereavement, mutilation, love at first sight with an obliging nymphomaniac) matters any more to you than to the resolutely dapper heroes. Clueless in every sense of the word. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Titan Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1783295368
• ISBN 13: 9781783295364
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320