Black Tide: A Lewis Cole Mystery - Softcover

Brendan DuBois

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671899996 ISBN 13: 9780671899998

Publisher: Pocket, 1996

Synopsis

Lewis Cole plans a relaxing end to his summer in New Hampshire, but corpses washing up on the beach and millions of dollars worth of stolen artwork disrupt his plans

About this title

About the Author:

Brendan DuBois is on the board of directors of the Mystery Writers of America.

From Publishers Weekly:

Sitting on the deck of his New Hampshire beach house with a couple of Molsons, retired agency man and occasional journalist Lewis Cole is bemoaning the recently oil-soaked coastline when he sees a corpse drift in. Lewis, who is recovering from an operation to remove a benign but puzzling tumor, a result of his participation in a Department of Defense experiment in Nevada (recounted in Dead Sand), is trying to trace the ownership of the tanker that spilled the oil. He also agrees to help a lesbian cop pal who has a new guy on the force interested in her and to advise, for a fee, his neighbor Felix, a onetime criminal who knows the whereabouts of three famous purloined paintings. Teasing us with Cole's agency history and the incident that ended his employment, DuBois spins a convoluted narrative that embraces the theft of the paintings from an art gallery, the financial woes of the gallery owner and a security guard, the amorous cop, the owner of the leaky ship and the floater. Successfully untangling this surfeit of plot lines, DuBois paints a vivid picture of Cole's life in controlled, seductive prose.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0671899996
• ISBN 13: 9780671899998
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400