Richard J. Cass

Sweetie Bogan's Sorrow (An Elder Darrow Mystery, #5) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Rasmussen Carter is grooming Lily Miller, a young jazz singer, to be a star. She's singing at the Greenwoodthe new incarnation of the Espositonow owned and managed by Baron Loftus, the nephew of Sweetie Bogan, an aging jazz diva. The night Lily debuts, Carter is stabbed in a fight by Sweetie Bogan's lover, Alfonso Deal-Jones. Lily then abandons Rasmussen Carter for Edward Dare, who promises to make her a real star.

Carter is killed in the hospital, and Marina asks Elder Darrow, now retired from the bar business, to investigatesince his pal and Marina's soon-to-be husband, Boston Police detective Dan Burton, is still jealous of Carter and Marina's brief fling. Deal-Jones is found beaten to death, and Burton discovers Alfonso was setting up a cocaine deal with Edward Dare, the lieutenant to a major New Orleans gangster, who also happens to be "death" on drug dealing.

On their own time, Elder and Burton must solve the murders of the low-rent impressario and the New Orleans gangster's right-hand man. Burton is sure there's a connection. And in the process, Elder discovers he may not be cut out for a life of leisure just yet . . .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Encircle Publications
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781645991151
• Artikelnr.: 61165049

Autorenporträt

Richard J. Cass's Elder Darrow Mystery series-In Solo Time, Solo Act, Burton's Solo, Last Call at the Esposito, Sweetie Bogan's Sorrow, Mickey's Mayhem, and Closing Time-features an amateur sleuth who owns a jazz bar in Boston. Solo Act was a finalist for the Maine Literary Award in Crime Fiction in 2017, and In Solo Time won that award in 2018. Cass is also the author of The Last Altruist, which won the 2021 Nancy Pearl Librarian's Prize for Genre Fiction and was shortlisted for the Maine Literary Award for Crime Fiction in 2021. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Playboy, Gray's Sporting Journal, ZZYZVA, Best Short Stories of the American West, Tough, and Shotgun Honey. His short fiction has won prizes from Redbook, Writers' Digest, and Playboy. He lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.