Polo's Wild Card (A Nick Polo Mystery) - Hardcover

Kennealy, Jerry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312044372 ISBN 13: 9780312044374

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1990

Synopsis

When Claude Martel, a wealthy art collector, becomes the victim of a robbery, he calls in San Francisco private detective Nick Polo to regain his valuable paintings

About this title

About the Author:

Jerry Kennealy has worked as a police officer, as well as a licensed private investigator, adding great authenticity to his novels. Besides the Polo mysteries, two of which have been nominated for Shamus Awards, he's written several non-series thrillers lately. He's a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the Private Eye Writers of America.

From Publishers Weekly:

Kennealy's series about San Francisco private eye Nick Polo (this is the fifth), while pretty standard stuff, clearly benefits from the author's experiences as a practicing PI. Polo attends a $500-a-plate charity dinner with his girlfriend (they have an "understanding," thus allowing him to pop guilt-free into a few other beds as the story unfolds) to gain a seat in a high-stakes poker game held during the event. Several valuable paintings are stolen that night, and Polo is hired to recover them by wealthy art collector Claude Martel who, somewhat light-fingered himself, had grabbed the paintings when he was part of a special World War II OSS team established to recover works of art snatched by the Germans. Polo's own record as an ex-con creates the expected confusion, complicated further by an unsavory competing private eye, Martel's over-sexed wife and daughter, a tough Texas banker and a mysterious Interpol agent. Few surprises here, but Kennealy's hands-on knowlege of an investigator's techniques adds verisimilitude and interest.
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About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0312044372
• ISBN 13: 9780312044374
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 214