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In this gripping mystery by US bestseller David Handler, sleuthing
suthor Stewart Hoag investigates the murder of his wealthy
neighbour, and discovers her dark past. 1990s New York. Muriel
Cantrell lives in a luxury apartment building on Central Park West,
where she's known for her pride and joy: a 1955 Rolls-Royce Silver
Cloud. Her neighbours include beautiful movie star Merilee Nash –
and author Stewart 'Hoagy' Hoag. Hoag, whose career crashed when he
got into drugs and alcohol, is on the up and he and basset hound
Lulu are glad to be sharing Merilee's life (and apartment) again.
Hoagy, Merilee and the building's other residents are shocked when
delicate, sweet, elderly Muriel is murdered after a Halloween
party. Who in the world would want to harm an old lady whose major
vices were buying Chanel suits and watching daytime soap operas?
NYPD Lieutenant Romaine Very investigates and again seeks
assistance from his friend Hoagy, who is perfectly placed to help.
Their sleuthing soon leads to the unexpected source of Muriel's
wealth, the history of her years at the Copacabana nightclub, and
how her Mob-linked chauffeur came to be called 'Bullets'... not to
mention a desperate meth-head nephew, and wealthy neighbours with
secrets of their own. A gripping, darkly comic new mystery, The
Lady in the Silver Cloud was a Traditional & Historical Crime
Club Pick on release. Reviews for David Handler 'One of my all-time
favourite series.' Harlan Coben 'Adultery, blackmail,
trick-or-treaters, unseemly ties to organized crime, and New York
in the 1990s. What's not to like?' Kirkus 'David Handler is a hoot,
and his books are just the thing for what ails you.' Parnell Hall
The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning
authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this "forceful,
beautifully written" (Associated Press) collection that brings
together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an
original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19,
1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen
Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded
the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation,
the ACLU remains the nation's premier defender of the rights and
freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the
ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an
anthology of essays "full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience,
hope, and triumph" (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark
cases in the organization's one-hundred-year history. Fight of the
Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have
shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU
has been involved in-Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade,
Miranda v. Arizona-need little introduction. Others you may never
even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we
live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid
life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the
history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the
questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to
Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the
now-iconic Miranda rights-which the police would later read to the
man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of
Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend
of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to
the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well
be on different planets. True to the ACLU's spirit of principled
dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU's
stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with
essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann
Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and
many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the
past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we
can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are
donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are
forgoing payment.
HARLAN COBEN calls it "One of my all-time favorite series! ...David
Handler is so good at writing one smart, funny page-turner after
another that he makes it look easy." Fans of JANET EVANOVICH and
CARL HIAASEN, get ready. If you haven't yet discovered wisecracking
sleuth Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag and his faithful basset hound Lulu,
you're in for a sharp, hilarious treat. Once upon a time, Hoagy had
it all: a hugely successful debut novel, a gorgeous celebrity wife,
the glamorous world of New York City at his feet. These days, he
scrapes by as a celebrity ghostwriter. A celebrity ghostwriter who
finds himself investigating murders more often than he'd like. And
once upon a time, Richard Aintree was the most famous writer in
America -- high school students across the country read his one and
only novel, a modern classic on par with The Catcher in the Rye.
But after his wife's death, Richard went into mourning...and then
into hiding. No one has heard from him in twenty years. Until now.
Richard Aintree - or someone pretending to be Richard Aintree - has
at last reached out to his two estranged daughters. Monette is a
lifestyle queen a la Martha Stewart whose empire is crumbling; and
once upon a time, Reggie was the love of Hoagy's life. Both sisters
have received mysterious typewritten letters from their father.
Hoagy is already on the case, having been hired to ghostwrite a
tell-all book about the troubled Aintree family. But no sooner does
he set up shop in the pool house of Monette's Los Angeles mansion
than murder strikes. With Lulu at his side - or more often cowering
in his shadow - it's up to Hoagy to unravel the mystery, catch the
killer, and pour himself that perfect single-malt Scotch...before
it's too late.
To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties
Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet
Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each
contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On
January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries,
including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal
Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century
after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation's premier defender
of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In
collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet
Waldman have curated an anthology of essays about landmark cases in
the organization's one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century
takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern
life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been
involved in-Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v.
Arizona-need little introduction. Others you may never even have
heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in
now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in
the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history,
narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the
heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda,
the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda
rights-which the police would later read to the man suspected of
killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of
Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief
questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has
public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different
planets. True to the ACLU's spirit of principled dissent, Scott
Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU's stance on campaign
finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil
Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh
Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us
that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred
years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our
liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their
advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.
Finalist for the Nero Award! "He's one of my very favorites: a
novelist whose champagne-fizzy mysteries-as winning as the madcap
adventures of Carl Hiaasen, as hilarious as Janet Evanovich's
Stephanie Plum series-tickle the brain, heart, and funny bone in
equal measure." -A.J. Finn, New York Times bestselling author of
Woman in the Window In the next novel in David Handler's Edgar
award-winning series, Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag and his beloved basset
hound, Lulu, investigate a murder in a fabled Connecticut summer
playhouse. Hollywood ghostwriter Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag has
chronicled the rise, fall, and triumphant return of many a
celebrity. At last he's enjoying his own, very welcome second act.
After hitting a creative slump following the success of his debut
novel, Hoagy has found inspiration again. Ensconced with his
faithful but cowardly basset hound, Lulu, on a Connecticut farm
belonging to his ex-wife, Oscar-winning actress Merilee Nash, he's
busy working on a new novel. He's even holding out hope that he and
Merilee might get together again. Life is simple and
fulfilling-which of course means it's time for complications to set
in.... When the police call to ask if he knows the whereabouts of a
man named R.J. Romero, Hoagy learns of a dark secret from his
ex-wife's past. It's already a stressful time for Merilee, who's
directing a gala benefit production of Private Lives to rescue the
famed but dilapidated Sherbourne Playhouse, where the likes of
Katherine Hepburn, Marlon Brando and Merilee herself made their
professional stage debuts. Her reputation, as well as the
playhouse's future, is at stake. The cast features three of
Merilee's equally famous Oscar-winning classmates from the Yale
School of Drama. But it turns out that there's more linking them to
each other-and to their fellow Yale alum, R.J.-than their alma
mater. When one of the cast is found murdered, it will take Hoagy's
sleuthing skills and Lulu's infallible nose to sniff out the
truth...before someone else faces the final curtain call.
The latest installment of David Handler's Edgar Award-winning
Stewart Hoag mystery series, set in 1990s' New York, sees the
ghostwriter-sleuth and his faithful basset hound Lulu inadvertently
make a dangerous enemy. After six glorious weeks of hard work on
his long-overdue second novel, celebrity-ghostwriter Stewart
"Hoagy" Hoag has hit a crossroads in his plot. He thinks a change
of scenery will do him good - and he knows just the place. His
ex-wife, the actress Merilee Nash, has offered him the use of her
idyllic Connecticut farmhouse, while she's away shooting a movie in
Budapest. Hoagy and his beloved basset hound Lulu settle in for a
few days' rest and relaxation. Hoagy expects fall splendor, long
walks and crisp night air. He doesn't expect Merilee's eccentric,
unwelcoming neighbor. Austin Talmadge warns Hoagy not to get on his
bad side, but what harm can a country oddball like Austin do? Quite
a lot, it turns out. All Hoagy wants to do is relax and clear his
head, but soon he's caught up in a strange, complex mystery - and
he'll need all his wits about him, and Lulu's unerring nose, if
he's to come out of this one alive . . .
The latest installment of David Handler's Edgar Award-winning
Stewart Hoag mystery series, set in 1990s' New York, sees the
ghostwriter-sleuth and his faithful basset hound Lulu inadvertently
make a dangerous enemy. After six glorious weeks of hard work on
his long-overdue second novel, celebrity-ghostwriter Stewart
"Hoagy" Hoag has hit a crossroads in his plot. He thinks a change
of scenery will do him good - and he knows just the place. His
ex-wife, the actress Merilee Nash, has offered him the use of her
idyllic Connecticut farmhouse, while she's away shooting a movie in
Budapest. Hoagy and his beloved basset hound Lulu settle in for a
few days' rest and relaxation. Hoagy expects fall splendor, long
walks and crisp night air. He doesn't expect Merilee's eccentric,
unwelcoming neighbor. Austin Talmadge warns Hoagy not to get on his
bad side, but what harm can a country oddball like Austin do? Quite
a lot, it turns out. All Hoagy wants to do is relax and clear his
head, but soon he's caught up in a strange, complex mystery - and
he'll need all his wits about him, and Lulu's unerring nose, if
he's to come out of this one alive . . .
In this gripping mystery by US bestseller David Handler, sleuthing
suthor Stewart Hoag investigates the murder of his wealthy
neighbour, and discovers her dark past. 1990s New York. Muriel
Cantrell lives in a luxury apartment building on Central Park West,
where she's known for her pride and joy: a 1955 Rolls-Royce Silver
Cloud. Her neighbours include beautiful movie star Merilee Nash -
and author Stewart 'Hoagy' Hoag. Hoag, whose career crashed when he
got into drugs and alcohol, is on the up and he and basset hound
Lulu are glad to be sharing Merilee's life (and apartment) again.
Hoagy, Merilee and the building's other residents are shocked when
delicate, sweet, elderly Muriel is murdered after a Halloween
party. Who in the world would want to harm an old lady whose major
vices were buying Chanel suits and watching daytime soap operas?
NYPD Lieutenant Romaine Very investigates and again seeks
assistance from his friend Hoagy, who is perfectly placed to help.
Their sleuthing soon leads to the unexpected source of Muriel's
wealth, the history of her years at the Copacabana nightclub, and
how her Mob-linked chauffeur came to be called 'Bullets'... not to
mention a desperate meth-head nephew, and wealthy neighbours with
secrets of their own. A gripping, darkly comic new mystery, The
Lady in the Silver Cloud was a Traditional & Historical Crime
Club Pick on release. Reviews for David Handler 'One of my all-time
favourite series.' Harlan Coben 'Adultery, blackmail,
trick-or-treaters, unseemly ties to organized crime, and New York
in the 1990s. What's not to like?' Kirkus 'David Handler is a hoot,
and his books are just the thing for what ails you.' Parnell Hall
The newest adventure featuring the mismatched romantic
crime-fighting duo of New York City film critic Mitch Berger and
Connecticut State Resident Trooper Desiree Mitry presents Des with
her first taste of Christmas in the historic New England village of
Dorset.
And what a taste it is. Three blizzards have blanketed the village
in forty inches of snow. Bryce Peck, Mitch's blue-blooded neighbor
out on Big Sister Island, has just been found dead of a drug
overdose. Young Kylie Champlain has slammed her car head-on into an
office building after she's caught trying to shoplift a pair of Ugg
boots. And a grinch has taken to stealing the mail from Hank
Merrill's postal route, which happens to be the main route through
the historic district.
Stealing the U.S. mail is a serious federal crime, but Des soon
discovers that she's onto something much bigger: a black-market
prescription drug gang with ties to organized crime. And now a
fourth blizzard is on its way. And so is another murder. And,
somehow, the man in her life has managed to land himself smack dab
in the middle of the whole mess. Not to mention that he's in way
over his head with Josie Cantro, the beautiful and treacherous
life-coach who just may be responsible for it all. If Des doesn't
act fast, this will truly be a Christmas to remember---but for all
of the wrong reasons.
David Handler's ninth book in this original series is brimming with
plenty of murder, mayhem, and holiday spirit.
The latest installment of David Handler's Edgar Award-winning
Stewart Hoag mystery series, set in 1990s' New York, sees the
ghostwriter-sleuth and his faithful basset hound Lulu inadvertently
make a dangerous enemy. After six glorious weeks of hard work on
his long-overdue second novel, celebrity-ghostwriter Stewart
"Hoagy" Hoag has hit a crossroads in his plot. He thinks a change
of scenery will do him good - and he knows just the place. His
ex-wife, the actress Merilee Nash, has offered him the use of her
idyllic Connecticut farmhouse, while she's away shooting a movie in
Budapest. Hoagy and his beloved basset hound Lulu settle in for a
few days' rest and relaxation. Hoagy expects fall splendor, long
walks and crisp night air. He doesn't expect Merilee's eccentric,
unwelcoming neighbor. Austin Talmadge warns Hoagy not to get on his
bad side, but what harm can a country oddball like Austin do? Quite
a lot, it turns out. All Hoagy wants to do is relax and clear his
head, but soon he's caught up in a strange, complex mystery - and
he'll need all his wits about him, and Lulu's unerring nose, if
he's to come out of this one alive . . .
The next clever, witty, and touching installment in the Edgar
award-winning Stewart Hoag mystery series finds the beloved
ghostwriter-sleuth and his faithful neurotic basset hound, Lulu,
back in 1990's New York City, investigating a bestselling author's
stolen manuscript and three murders linked to the crime. Washed-up
celebrity ghostwriter Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag has finally rediscovered
his voice and is making progress on what he hopes will be his
long-awaited second novel. Burrowed up in his less-than-luxurious,
sweltering fifth floor walk-up, he tries not to think of the
disparities between himself and his ex-wife, celebrity actress
Merilee Nash, who is sifting through film offers--and also her
fickle feelings for Hoagy--from her elegant eight-room apartment
looking over Central Park. When Merilee offers her home for Hoagy's
use while she's shooting on location, hope blossoms that he might
finally get some real work done... and solidify their rekindling
romance. Then Hoagy receives a call from his literary agent asking
if he can meet with publishing's most ruthless and reviled editor,
Sylvia James, for a drink at the Algonquin Hotel. After disclosing
that aging literary genius Addison James--also Sylvia's father and
main client--has not in fact written his last two bestselling
historical sagas, Sylvia reveals her suspicions that Addison's
assistant Tommy O'Brien--the true author--has run away with their
most recent manuscript and is holding it for ransom. Tempted by
Sylvia's offer to bid a hefty advance for his novel-in-progress,
Hoagy agrees to help unearth Tommy's sudden disappearance. If only
he'd known exactly what he was getting himself into, he might've
saved himself from the ensuing grief that follows in his hot
pursuit of Tommy. But then, that wouldn't be a normal day in the
life of Hoagy. With clattering claims of a mugging, a stolen
manuscript, and three murders, now it's up to Hoagy and his
short-legged sidekick Lulu to unravel this baffling, bizarre case.
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