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    Feast of Murder

    By Jane Haddam

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    Once one of Wall Street’s most powerful forces, Donald McAdam’s life changed when he found himself in a tight spot with the SEC. Either give up everything, they told him, or inform on your friends. Never one for loyalty, McAdam chose the wire, and sent half the stockbrokers in New York to prison. Now he’s filthy rich, isolated, and so paranoid that he buys his cocaine laced with strychnine, in hopes of building up a tolerance for the poison. His caution doesn’t help him, however, when he tumbles off his high-rise balcony and falls headfirst back down to Wall Street. Soon afterward, one of the men McAdam put away invites ex–FBI investigator Gregor Demarkian on a very peculiar cruise-onboard a cramped precise replica of the Mayflower. But when the behavior of the passengers proves rather un-Puritan, Demarkian discovers something that would have shocked Columbus: a New World murder.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publishermysteriouspress.com
    Release dateJul 1, 2017
    ISBN9781786698704
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    Jane Haddam

    Jane Haddam (1951–2019) was an American author of mysteries. Born Orania Papazoglou, she worked as a college professor and magazine editor before publishing her Edgar Award–nominated first novel, Sweet, Savage Death, in 1984. This mystery introduced Patience McKenna, a sleuthing scribe who would go on to appear in four more books, including Wicked, Loving Murder (1985) and Rich, Radiant Slaughter (1988).   Not a Creature Was Stirring (1990) introduced Haddam’s best-known character, former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian. The series spans more than twenty novels, many of them holiday-themed, including Murder Superior (1993), Fountain of Death (1995), and Wanting Sheila Dead (2005). Haddam’s later novels include Blood in the Water (2012) and Hearts of Sand (2013).

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      It is amazing that Gregor Demarkian doesn't flee the country with the coming of the holidays--any holiday--since inevitably a murder or two shows up to help him celebrate. Thanksgiving is no exception; in this 6th in the series, Demarkian and Bennis Hannaford find themselves on a replica of the Mayflower, sailing with a murderer. The cause of death is strychnine. Demarkian must not only find the perp but convince all present that there has been a murder to begin with!Naturally, Demarkian solves the case with his usual air of inevitable logic--but logic only he has the wit to see until the (very good) climax.An entertaining if light-weight read.