The Fitzgerald Ruse (A Sam Blackman Mystery)(Library Edition)

Mark De Castrique

ISBN 10: 1433290286 ISBN 13: 9781433290282

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2009

Synopsis

Former chief warrant officer and amputee Sam Blackman and his partner, Nakayla Robertson, are opening a detective agency. They have high hopes that the thriving Mountain Region will provide a steady stream of cases. Their first client, a quirky elderly woman in a retirement community, makes a strange request: she wants Sam to right a wrong she committed over seventy years ago. Her victim? F. Scott Fitzgerald. Her crime? Stealing a manuscript when Fitzgerald resided in the stately Grove Park Inn. Sam s task seems simple enough: retrieve the woman s lockbox and deliver the manuscript to Fitzgerald s heirs.

About this title

About the Author

MARK DE CASTRIQUE grew up in the mountains of western North Carolina. He is a veteran of the television and film production industry, and he serves as an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He and his wife, Linda, live in Charlotte.

Reviews

The second installment of the Sam Blackman mystery series finds the former military CID officer opening a private detective firm in Asheville, North Carolina, with his professional (and romantic) partner, Nakayla Robertson. If eclectic Asheville had a voice, it would sound like the understated Southern accent chosen by narrator William Dufris. His slow pace reflects the region; however, a faster speed would have aided the plot, which is a bit slow to start. It's worth hanging in to see Blackman search for a long-lost F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscript. Dufris struggles to make a few of the female characters sound believably feminine but does a perfunctory job with co-detective Nakayla. Intrigue surrounding the military contractor Blackwater makes the story especially timely. J.T. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433290286
• ISBN 13: 9781433290282
• Binding: Audio CD