Bishop's Revenge - Hardcover

Love, William F.

4.11

38 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 155611351X ISBN 13: 9781556113512

Publisher: Dutton Adult, 1993

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Wheelchair-bound Bishop Francis X. Regan and his special assistant, Davey Goldman, find themselves defending the man who shot Regan years before and put him in his wheelchair.

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From Publishers Weekly:

Playing to fans of the late Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe/Archie Goodwin series, Love pens the fourth adventure (following Bloody Ten ) of wheelchair-bound Bishop Francis X. Regan, of the Archdiocese of New York, and Davey Goodman, his live-in PI/assistant. Socialite Ladd Compton is killed during a robbery at his parents' lush Manhattan home, and Eddie Goode, the small-time felon who put Regan in a wheelchair eight years earlier, is charged with murder. But Goode, whose prints are on the murder gun found nearby, insists he was set up and his lawyer convinces Regan to help in the man's defense. Another murder, that of the gangster's ex-wife (and Compton's former girlfriend), focuses the duo's suspicions on Compton family members and their intimates. Regan unmasks the killer at the expected finale with all the suspects and the police assembled in his home on West 37th St. With the Bishop as shut-in brain and Davey the worldly-wise legman and narrator, Love hews closely to the pattern of the originals but gets details wrong, especially the fine points of the Manhattan setting and the characters' New Yorkese. Essentially this mystery misses the mark by at least as many blocks as separate the Bishop's residence from Wolfe's townhouse on West 35th.
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From Kirkus Reviews:

Bishop Francis X. Regan and legman Davey Goldman go to bat for Eddie Goode, the man who brought them together eight years back by shooting Regan and consigning him to a wheelchair. Eddie's accused of killing carwash heir Laddie Compton, whom he insists had inveigled him into a wild scheme to steal the family jewels. A second homicide--the victim a longtime Compton friend with sadly irrelevant mob connections--focuses attention on the real suspects: family members who have strong opinions about the breakneck expansion of the upscale Midas Touch Autocare chain--and Davey gets to question them all, disguising himself as a cop, an insurance investigator, a bank loan officer, and an official of the Knights of St. Titus, as the occasion demands. A nicely hidden motive for an obvious culprit; and Davey's endless masquerades seem a little forced this time. Not up to The Fundamentals of Murder or (especially) Bloody Ten. -- Copyright �1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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