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The Devil Hath a Pleasing Shape - Roberts, Terry
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"The autumn of 1924, and Benjamin Loftis has a problem. He is the manager of the glorious Grove Park Inn, the jewel in the crown of Asheville, North Carolina and of all the Southern mountains. This particular problem is in the form of a college girl who turns up one morning in one of his finest rooms - naked and dead. Shot twice with a small caliber pistol. After weeks of increasingly bad publicity, Loftis calls in Stephen Robbins, a local man who is famous in some circles for finding missing people and solving unsolvable crimes. Robbins eventually solves the puzzle of who is killing…mehr

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"The autumn of 1924, and Benjamin Loftis has a problem. He is the manager of the glorious Grove Park Inn, the jewel in the crown of Asheville, North Carolina and of all the Southern mountains. This particular problem is in the form of a college girl who turns up one morning in one of his finest rooms - naked and dead. Shot twice with a small caliber pistol. After weeks of increasingly bad publicity, Loftis calls in Stephen Robbins, a local man who is famous in some circles for finding missing people and solving unsolvable crimes. Robbins eventually solves the puzzle of who is killing Asheville's prostitutes. But when he does, he runs head on into the financial and political elite who control this mountain town, those who want a murderer caught and punished but not the murderer"--
Autorenporträt
Terry Roberts is the author of five celebrated novels: A Short Time to Stay Here (winner of the Willie Morris Prize for Southern Fiction and the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction); That Bright Land (winner of the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award, the James Still Award for Writing About the Appalachian South and the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction); The Holy Ghost Speakeasy and Revival (Finalist for the 2019 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction); My Mistress' Eyes are Raven Black (Finalist for the 2022 Best Paperback Original Novel by the International Thriller Writers Organization); and most recently, The Sky Club, released in July of 2022. Roberts is a lifelong teacher and educational reformer as well as an award-winning novelist. He is a native of the mountains of Western North Carolina--born and bred. His ancestors include six generations of mountain farmers, as well as the bootleggers and preachers who appear in his novels. He was raised close by his grandmother, Belva Anderson Roberts, who was born in 1888 and passed to him the magic of the past along with the grit and humor of mountain story telling. Roberts is the Director of the National Paideia Center and lives in Asheville, North Carolina with his wife, Lynn.