My darling detective / Howard Norman.
"Jacob Rigolet, soon to be fired from his position as assistant to a wealthy art collector, looks up from his seat at an auction to see his mother, Nora Ives Rigolet, until that day head librarian at Halifax Free Library, walk almost casually up the aisle and fling an open jar of black ink at m...
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| Other title: | Brian E. Lebowitz Collection of 20th Century Jewish American Literature. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Donor: | Lebowitz copy gift of Brian E. Lebowitz. |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2017.
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| Summary: | "Jacob Rigolet, soon to be fired from his position as assistant to a wealthy art collector, looks up from his seat at an auction to see his mother, Nora Ives Rigolet, until that day head librarian at Halifax Free Library, walk almost casually up the aisle and fling an open jar of black ink at master photographer Robert Capa's "Death on a Leipzig Balcony." Jacob's fiancee, the erotically accomplished Detective Martha Crauchet, is assigned to the interrogation. Norman delivers a fond and witty homage to noir, as Jacob's understanding of the man he has always assumed to be his father unravels against the darker truth of Emil Smith, a Halifax police officer suspected but never convicted of murdering two Jewish residents during the shocking upswing of anti semitism in 1945, the year Jacob was born"--Publisher. |
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| Item Description: | "A novel"--Book jacket. |
| Physical Description: | 245 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780544236103 0544236106 |
| Access: | LIMITED USE ITEM(S): Use may be restricted to a CUB Libraries location. Patron will be contacted with details of use. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Lebowitz copy gift of Brian E. Lebowitz. |