Theater of the Crime - Softcover

Neil Low

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594040613 ISBN 13: 9781594040610

Publisher: Tigress Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

A birthday celebration at Seattle s historic Paramount Theater turns tragic when a fire erupts on stage, leaving behind smoldering clues and a magician burnt beyond recognition. When the smoke clears, private detectives Alan Stewart and Vera Deward once again find themselves thrust into the depths of an international mystery. Frustrated by a performance troupe of Russian Émigrés, magicians, and dancers, who know more than they are willing to tell, Alan and Vera seek the help of a famous psychic, Alexander The Man Who Knows All. Will Alexander be able to shed light on this mystery, or is he just another smoke and mirrors illusionist seeking to profit while standing on the ruins of his dismantled competition? As the body count climbs in famous Seattle theaters, Vera and Alan join with trusted police detective, Ben Kearney, and together they employ hard-knock techniques, psychic predictions, potions, and good old-fashioned sleuthing, discovering that in the world of magic, sleight-of-hand and treachery can reach beyond the stage, drag up the historical past, open old wounds, and threaten the present. Leave it to Neil Low to bring us Depression Era Seattle, steeped in the Wobblies labor movement, seasoned with the prophecies of The Man Who Knows All, stirred with the not-distant history of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution and its controversial and cruel murder of the Russian Czar and family, and strained through the milieu of the now lost spectacle of magnificent and opulent theaters. I won t speculate on the mind that brings us this scintillating combination of entanglements, except to say that it creates a fine story. --Lowen Clausen, Author of The River Once again, Vera Deward and Alan Stewart are on the case, this time solving brutal crimes in Seattle s historic Paramount Theater, Orpheum Theater, and Moore Theater. As it is with all of Low s fatal fables in the series, they crack with the verisimilitude of a real-life police detective. It s like he s taking dictation from Hell. On the boards or off, Low s Theater of the Crime is a show-stopper! --Don Roff, Author of Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection

About this title

About the Author:

NEIL LOW is a captain with the Seattle Police Department and is currently the agency's Homeland Security and Metro/Special Response Section Commander. He is fresh off serving four years as the Night Commander, and as such was responsible for coordinating the police handling of large emergencies, tragedies, and serious crimes. He was the agency's first commander of its Ethics and Professional Responsibility Section and has commanded sections in almost every other area of police operations, sometimes twice, like his former stint in the Metropolitan Section, which at that time had K-9, Mounted, Harbor, and SWAT. Neil has also commanded Homicide and Violent Crimes, which included Robbery, Fugitive, Gangs, and task forces. Neil has also commanded: Advanced Training and the Range, Internal Affairs, Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. He is a Vietnam War veteran and a cum laude graduate of the University of Washington s Bothell campus, where he also wrote for the school s weekly newspaper, The UW Bothell Commons. Neil recently served two years as a UW trustee, representing the Bothell campus. A Seattle native, he now lives in Snohomish with his wife and daughters. When not involved in police work or volunteer activities, Neil leads murder mystery tours through Seattle's Pioneer Square.

Review:

Leave it to Neil Low to bring us Depression Era Seattle, steeped in the Wobblies labor movement, seasoned with the prophecies of The Man Who Knows All, stirred with the not-distant history of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution and its controversial and cruel murder of the Russian Czar and family, and strained through the milieu of the now lost spectacle of magnificent and opulent theaters. I won't speculate on the mind that brings us this scintillating combination of entanglements, except to say that it creates a fine story. --Lowen Clausen, Author of The River ----Lowen Clausen, Author of The River

Once again, Vera Deward and Alan Stewart are on the case, this time solving brutal crimes in Seattle's historic Paramount Theater, Orpheum Theater, and Moore Theater. As it is with all of Low's fatal fables in the series, they crack with the verisimilitude of a real-life police detective. It's like he's taking dictation from Hell. On the boards or off, Low's Theater of the Crime is a show-stopper! --Don Roff, Author of Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection ----Don Roff, Author of Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection

About this edition

• Publisher: Tigress Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1594040613
• ISBN 13: 9781594040610
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 265
• Editor: Peter Atkins
• Illustrator: Steve Montiglio