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Introduces the hapless Leo Gold, a reluctant sleuth who tries to revive his flagging relationship with his girlfriend Lizzie by taking her on a romantic trip to Egypt, where she promptly disappears at the hands of a deadly conspiracy. Original.

When his British girlfriend, Lizzie, disappears in a cloud of pink smoke in a Cairo perfume shop, New Yorker Leo Gold takes the matter into his own hands. With a waiter/private detective and a mute Bedouin eunuch along for the ride, Gold scales mountains, spends a night in a cave aptly named The Dark, and pretty much resists an almond-eyed harem girl. And the reader could not care less. In Leo Gold, Finkelstein attempts to create a witty, hapless character who will interest readers in a series. Instead, the banter in this skippable series launch is better suited to a vaudeville act?complete with minstrelsy (" 'Oo was I? Ma name was Toms Jefsn Washin' Linkn' X.'... you know, like deh las letta' o' deh alph-bet?' ").
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