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New York
World's top writer, the urbane Alexander Brass, and his sidekick
Morgan DeWitt are on the trail of a missing woman. Two-Headed
Mary can usually be found collecting for a charity outside
the Broadway theatres, but nobody knows where she is, or do
they? Also missing are chorus girls Billie Trask and Lydia
Laurent from the hit show Lucky Lady, along with a large sum
of money. The intrepid pair are soon dealing with more than
one dead body, a total that is set to rise…
This is the sequel to Too
Soon Dead (also reviewed on this site), and now the scene
of New York in 1935 has been set the fun can really start,
and start it certainly does. Once again Kurland has evoked
the world shown in black and white films; the world of the
Depression with people down but most assuredly not out. Broadway
shows, grifters, oil barons and nightclubs filled with famous
people make up the New York inhabited by the innocent but
energetic Morgan and his sophisticated boss. This is all described
in an almost tactile way by narrator Morgan, up from the country
and feeling lucky to be a part of such a full-blooded time
and place. This is a real page turner in what is shaping up
to be one of the more enjoyable (and best written) new historical
mystery series, but still for me the best thing is being able
to read such an evocative description of a time and place.
The next best thing to being there, I look forward to the
next case.
1st in series: Too
Soon Dead
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