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When a previously unknown Whistler painting is discovered and its elderly owner is murdered, art expert Tim Simpson and his girlfriend Sue Westerman begin a frantic search for the masterpiece and the killer
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In this fourth mystery featuring art collector/detective Tim Simpson, we find the hero hot on the trail of an obscure pair of paintings by J. M. Whistler. The nice old gentleman who shows Simpson and his girlfriend, Tate Gallery aide Sue Westerman, photographs of the paintings, is roughed up by hoods and later found dead. Although Simpson's old friend Nobby Roberts, chief inspector at Scotland Yard, takes over the case, Simpson finds himself unable to ignore the mystery. Readers may not have the same problem. Malcolm has laid on so many sub-plots, given us such intimate knowledge of British banking, worked in so much extraneous information about Whistler, made so many oblique references to the other Simpson stories and provided so many red herrings, that the reader is overwhelmed. Furthermore, the narrative voice is almost unbearably smug, the story relies heavily on a matrix of coincidences, and the ending, which seems tacked on at best, is a disappointment. Malcolm writes as if both he and Simpson were bored with mysteries and would rather be looking at paintings. Paperback rights to Ballantine.
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- PublisherBallantine Books
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0345342925
- ISBN 13 9780345342928
- BindingMass Market Paperback
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