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Nina Fischman, a Jewish lawyer living on Manhattan's Upper West Side must look into the suspicious death of the principal heir to a large fortune. By the author of Unorthodox Practices and Personal Effects.
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Nina Fischman, a public service lawyer for the elderly, carries on the Rhoda Morganstern tradition of witty Jewish Manhattanites with husbandless homes and easily stirred sympathies ("Everything that happened to anybody anywhere was a concern. It made it difficult to prioritize"). Serving as executor of her mother's best friend's estate, Nina plunges into her third sleuthing adventure (following Personal Effects ) when she discovers a mystery surrounding the death of the deceased woman's son several months earlier. Her probe turns up a bunch of heartless rich people who dabble in adultery and questionable real estate deals. Relieving the fashionable ennui are a sad, smart, bulimic teenager and Nina's mother, a retired teacher who picked up not just a degree from Hunter College ca. 1939, but also a social conscience and an appreciation of "the moving primitivism of Diego Rivera and the agitprop drama of Clifford Odets" to match. These two characters, along with the disarming Nina, a solid plot, snappy prose and attorney Piesman's knowledge of New York City real estate and ethnic echelons, almost make the reader overlook her occasional inattention to what she has written a few pages earlier.
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Chubby Jewish lawyer Nina Fischman (who appeared recently in Personal Effects , Pocket Bks., 1991), executrix of an acquaintance's will, investigates the man's "accidental" death at the request of his teenage daughter. The case involves careful planning, questioning, and a somewhat anticlimactic denouement, but the author/narrator gains yardage with humorous ethnic palaver, prejudiced views of New York peccadilloes, and satiric commentary on the "hazards" of being Jewish. Clear, straightforward, and pleasant. Another good choice.
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- PublisherDelacorte Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0385305370
- ISBN 13 9780385305372
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages247
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