The Good and the Dead - Hardcover

Shubin, Seymour

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1885173822 ISBN 13: 9781885173829

Publisher: Write Way Pub, 2000

Synopsis

The good and the dead -- what does it mean? Don't even try to guess.

Ben Newman, a writer of true-detective stories, has written about scores of murders and thinks he has seen it "all" -- until he's confronted with the murders of adults from his old neighborhood whom he hasn't seen since childhood. It begins with the body of his brother's wife found floating in the family swimming pool. Suspicion immediately centers, with good reason, on Ben's brother, a physician. But then Ben -- who has always looked on murder as something that happened to "other people," finds himself confronted with a series of strange deaths: among them a pharmacist he'd known since kindergarten, and a woman whom he'd kissed in the moonlight on a long-ago school trip.

In this, his eleventh novel, Edgar-finalist Seymour Shubin akes us on a bizarre journey through several murders that eventually come to reflect on our own humanity. This is a novel, a rarity in psych/suspense mystery fiction, that combines truly unforgettable characters with pure action.

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About the Author

Seymour Shubin lives with his wife in the Philadelphia suburb of Wynnewood. They have two married children. A full-time freelancer, he has published articles and short stories in many national publications. His first novel, Anyone's My Name, became a New York Times bestseller. He has eleven novels in publication, including Fury's Children and My Face Among Strangers, both published by Write Way Publishing.

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Prologue

It was weird how, of all the thoughts of her whirling through his mind as he waited in the dark by her house, certain ones stood out. Of her skipping rope with the other girls, her skirt flapping above her knee-high socks, her little nose high--but she always held it high, even when she was just walking. Of that time when he was at the back of the line at the movies, the only kid there by himself, how she and the two other little bitches she was with would keep glancing back, pretending they were looking at something behind him, but their eyes always stopping a moment on him: how they would keep glancing back and then giggle at each other.

He'd belonged up there ahead of them and they knew it, knew he'd been right in front of them and had gone off just for a couple of seconds to buy some popcorn, but when he'd come back they were all crowded into each other, giggling, and he didn't have nerve enough to get back in, but went to the back of the line like a wimp.

And of all the times, the little blond-haired bitch, that little Goldilocks, she would walk by him without a look, would keep staring straight ahead or even turn away, though she was always playing up to all the other guys.

All these thoughts.

And so, after she had come out of the house and within frenzied seconds was dead, it came almost as a shock as, staring down at her fully-clothed body floating in the pool, he watched her hair fanning out on the water.

Long and black, and even with some strands of gray.

Edition details

• Publisher: Write Way Pub
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1885173822
• ISBN 13: 9781885173829
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 246