My Brother's Keeper

This novella brings together two great Canadian crime writers and their crime solvers: Howard Engel and his somewhat bumbling Grantham private investigator, Benny Cooperman, and Eric Wright with his smooth, retiring Toronto police detective, Charlie Salter.

When Dr. John Davidson Horner, the chief of staff at Toronto's Rose of Sharon Hospital, disappears, Benny Cooperman is brought in by his brother Sam, a surgeon at the hospital. Sam worries that he might be implicated in a yet-to-be-published memoir Horner has written that exposes the sins of a number of the staff. Horner is considered a bit of an odd duck: old-fashioned, highly moral but slightly racist, single, and living alone with his spinster sister. It's very unlikely that he has run off to the Bahamas with a young nurse! He should be easy to find for either Salter or Cooperman, but he isn't - dead or alive!

Librarian's note #1: characters, settings, etc. have been completed for the Benny Cooperman series of 12 novels and 2 novellas: #1. The Suicide Murders (1980), #2. The Ransom Game (1981), #3. Murder On Location (1982), #4. Murder Sees The Light (1984), #5. A City Called July (1986), #6. A Victim Must Be Found (1988), #7. Dead And Buried (1990), #7A. The Whole Megillah (1991) (a novella), #8. There Was An Old Woman (1993), #9. Getting Away With Murder (1995), #10. The Cooperman Variations (2001), #10A. My Brother's Keeper (2001) with co-author Eric Wright (a novella), #11. Memory Book (2005), and #12, East Of Suez (2008). A thirteenth, Over the River, was scheduled for 2018 but never came out.

Librarian's note #2: all the characters, settings, description updates, etc. have been done for the Charlie Salter 11 volume + one novella series: 1. The Night the Gods Smiled, 1983; 2. Smoke Detector, 1984; 3. Death in the Old Country, 1985; 4. A Single Death, 1986; 5. A Body Surrounded by Water, 1987; 6. A Question of Murder, 1988; 7. A Sensitive Case, 1990; 8. Final Cut, 1991; 9. A Fine Italian Hand, 1992; 10. Death by Degrees, 1993; 11. The Last Hand, 2001; and 11.A. My Brother's Keeper, a novella with Howard Engel featuring both Salter and Benny Cooperman, 2001.