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On Thanksgiving Day, LAPD homicide detective Kate Delafield and her partner, Ed Taylor, are called to an apartment building on the edge of Beverly Hills to investigate a premeditated and pitiless murder.No one appears particularly grieved by the shocking end to old-time Hollywood director Owen Sinclair. Surely not three other tenants of the Beverly Malibu, who worked in the motion picture industry during the blacklist years and loathed Sinclair for having been a "friendly witness" before the show more House Un-American Activities Committee.Nor is Sinclair's latest ex-wife grieved or even his children. Nor film actress and former paramour Maxine Marlowe. Nor Dudley Kincaid, whose brilliant screenplay Sinclair stole. Nor landlady Hazel Turner, whose husband, Jerome, is deceased but not exactly gone...Kate sifts through tantalizing clues: a set of handcuffs fastening the murdered man to his bed of death; an album of a Wagner opera; a bourbon bottle lightly dosed with arsenic; a silver frame missing its photo.She is also in a quandary over her fascination with Paula Grant, who discovered the murdered man. Until she is suddenly confounded by a wholly new aspect of herself uncovered by Aimee Grant, Paula Grant's remarkably beautiful young niece... show lessTags
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The third book in the Kate Delafield series of mysteries was just as good as the previous two.
The story starts with a murder as usual. The murder of a man who had been an informer during the McCarthy hearings. All those who live in the rent controlled Beverly Malibu apartments are suspects and I was pleasently surprised that Forrest kept me guessing for who of the suspects actually did it.
I'm also starting to like the character of Detective Ed Taylor, perhaps Forrest is writing him differently, or maybe I'm just getting used to the character.
Kate is still Kate, but while in the first two books she didn't seem to grow as a character, in this one she does and I'm interested to see where Forrest will go with Kate in the next novels in the show more series.
A solid novel, good mystery, and a whole lotta references to Candace Bergen. show less
The story starts with a murder as usual. The murder of a man who had been an informer during the McCarthy hearings. All those who live in the rent controlled Beverly Malibu apartments are suspects and I was pleasently surprised that Forrest kept me guessing for who of the suspects actually did it.
I'm also starting to like the character of Detective Ed Taylor, perhaps Forrest is writing him differently, or maybe I'm just getting used to the character.
Kate is still Kate, but while in the first two books she didn't seem to grow as a character, in this one she does and I'm interested to see where Forrest will go with Kate in the next novels in the show more series.
A solid novel, good mystery, and a whole lotta references to Candace Bergen. show less
The McCarthy hearings come back to haunt a man who informed on others.
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Katherine V. Forrest is an author of international renown. A four-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award, she created the Kate Delafield mystery series, and the lesbian classics Curious Wine and Daughters of a Coral Dawn
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- Canonical title
- The Beverly Malibu
- Original publication date
- 1989
- Dedication
- For Sheila:
For Love and for Life - First words
- Turning off Burton Way onto Arnaz Drive, Detective Kate Delafield drifted the Plymouth across Colgate Avenue and through the single lane allowed by half a dozen double-parked black-and-white, their light bars pulsing brillian... (show all)tly in the darkness.
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