Death Benefits (Rachel Gold Mystery) - Softcover

Kahn, Michael A.

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9780451176875: Death Benefits (Rachel Gold Mystery)

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ISBN 10: 0451176871 ISBN 13: 9780451176875

Publisher: Onyx, 1994

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Determined to reap insurance benefits from her husband's sudden death, the wife of the late Stoddard Anderson hires Rachel Gold to find evidence to prove that Anderson's death was not a suicide

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About the Author:

Michael A. Kahn is the award-winning author of several novels, praised by Publishers Weekly for their “intelligent, breezy dialogue and clever plotting.” A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Mr. Kahn began his literary career writing free-lance feature articles for Chicago Magazine while teaching fifth grade in the Chicago public schools. Now a trial attorney in St. Louis, he wrote his first novel on a dare from his wife, who got sick of hearing him announce, each time he finished a paperback thriller that he’d purchased at an airport newsstand, “I could write a better book than this.” “Then write one,” she finally said, “or please shut up.”

From Publishers Weekly:

The second appearance of Chicago attorney Rachel Gold (after Grave Desire ) is marred by flat characters and an overly complicated plot. Rachel travels to her hometown, St. Louis, when her former boss requests that she look into the suicide of lawyer Stoddard Anderson. If Anderson is judged sane at the time of his suicide, his widow will be denied extra benefits under his life insurance policy. Since Anderson anonymously moved into a hotel three days before he was found dead in the bathtub, his state of mind at the end is in question. By interviewing the people Anderson saw in the week before he secluded himself, Rachel discovers that he was in the middle of a shaky multimillion-dollar transaction. Apparently Anderson found and hid a jewel-encrusted artifact that U.S. Customs, a representative of the Mexican government and an American religious fanatic each would like to have. Having access to Anderson's records, Rachel decides to find the artifact herself. Despite her tough professional image, Rachel acts like a teenager around a handsome New Mexico lawyer; her waffling about whether the artifact should be returned to the Mexican government or sold to the highest bidder further diminishes her credibility.
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