Five Star First Edition Mystery - Off-Season and Other Stories - Hardcover

Jeremiah Healy

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9780786254385: Five Star First Edition Mystery - Off-Season and Other Stories

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786254386 ISBN 13: 9780786254385

Publisher: Five Star, 2003

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Shamus Award-winning author

All of Jeremiah Healy's trademarks are in this wonderful collection which includes the never-before-published novella, Off-Season, featuring Kevin Malloy, a city cop on vacation who stumbles into a murder investigation. As he tries to figure out who did what to whom, the half-truths begin to pile up, until Malloy isn't sure who's on whose side.

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Boston private investigator John Francis Cuddy is Healy's best-known creation. But as these 10 short stories and one novella illustrate, Healy is capable of creating believable characters and clever plots outside the confines of the modern private-eye novel. The novella, "Off-Season," finds vacationing Boston police detective Kevin Malloy helping the apparently befuddled police chief of a small Caribbean island solve a locked-room mystery. "The Safest Little Town in Texas" is a perfect example of a Chamber of Commerce marketing phrase being both misleading and deadly accurate, as one small-time hood finds out. A short highlight is "Rotten to the Core," in which the son of a widowed apple farmer has his nefarious plans pointed right back at him. Healy's work--Cuddy and otherwise--is notable for its sly humor and sharp dialogue. Both are present in abundance in this very enjoyable collection. Wes Lukowsky
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"Boston private investigator John Francis Cuddy is Healy's best-know creation. But as these 10 short stories and one novella illustrate, Healy is capable of creating believable characters and clever plots outside the confines of the modern private-eye novel...Healy's work--Cuddy and otherwise--is notable for its sly humor and sharp dialogue. Both are present in abundance in this very enjoyable collection."
-- Booklist (August 2003) (Booklist 2003-08-01)

"Each of the eleven entires is well written and contains the trademark Jeremiah Healy final twist..."
-- AllReaders (All Readers)

"... a superb police procedural..."
-- Book Crossing (Book Crossing)

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