Masquerade - Softcover

Satterthwait, Walter

3.61

99 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312969899 ISBN 13: 9780312969899

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1999

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In the sequel to Escapade, Jane and Phil unwittingly uncover a murderous plot in 1923 Paris and must try to investigate the death of wealthy American publisher Richard Forsythe without arousing the dangerous ire of his German mistress Sabine. Reprint.

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Review:

Walter Satterthwait writes richly detailed historical mysteries about everyone from Oscar Wilde to Lizzie Borden. In the well-reviewed Escapade, he introduced us to Pinkerton detective Phil Beaumont and his partner, a sharp and seductive Brit named Jane Turner. Masquerade brings this fascinating couple to Paris in 1923, where wealthy American dilettante Richard Forsythe and his German mistress have been found dead. The French police are calling it a double suicide, but Forsythe's mother has hired Beaumont and Turner to dig deeper. In between having amorous alliances, spotting the likes of Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway on the street, and eating too many rich meals with a French policeman ("One can lead a horse to tournedos Rossini, but one cannot make him eat," this worthy sighs when Phil finally requests a steak, rare, with no sauces), Beaumont and Turner dip into a world of insidious aristocrats and dangerous drug dealers as they find out what really happened. Other Satterthwait pleasures in paperback: Accustomed to the Dark, At Ease with the Dead, Wall of Glass. --Dick Adler

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"[A] witty pen-in-check adventure." --The New York Times Book Review

"A complete delight...Filled with running ironies and inside gags." --The Wall Street Journal

"The only way to see Paris is the way that Walter Satterthwait invites us to see it in Masquerade: in the company of Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway." --Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

"Satterthwait does a fine job--a masterful job, one might say--with the historical scene, the literary figures, and all the elements of the traditional locked-room mystery." --Robin Winks, The Boston Globe

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