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New York Times bestselling author, Marcia Muller, brings you another thrilling mystery with her famous private investigator, Sharon McCone.Sharon McCone has decided to throw herself into work so she can get past her brother's suicide, but the wrongful-death suit she is working on hits too close to home. It's a civil case in which the family of a young 'zine employee claims his suicide was the result of his company's treatment of him. In his final journal entry, Roger Nagasawa describes his show more fatal plunge from the San Francisco Bridge as being "swept away from sadness."
With the help of her friend, J.D. Smith, McCone investigates the InSite offices and soon learns of its publisher's less-than-professional activities. She also learns that Roger had been afraid for his life since he was a witness to computer espionage. Faced with the death of her friend, Smith, and the sudden disappearance of Roger's associate, McCone must keep one step ahead of the game and solve this mystery — or else become the next victim.
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Yet another engaging Sharon McCone mystery. The stories are good, but it's the great characters and their development that keep bringing me back. This one has McCone investigating the reason for a young man's suicide just as she is dealing with a similar tragedy in her own family. She delves into the world of venture capital in the wake of the dot com bust which I found interesting in retrospect (I read the book 20+ years after it was published). Well constructed story. Good characters. Nicely done.
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Marcia Muller, novelist, short-story writer and anthologist, was born in Detroit in 1944. She attended the University of Michigan, where she studied writing. Edwin of the Iron Shoes (1977) was her first book featuring Sharon McCone, a female private eye strong enough to compete in the male-dominated crime genre. In 1993, Muller was given the show more Private Eye Writers of America Life Achievement Award, and the following year her novel Wolf in the Shadows won the Anthony Boucher Award and was nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Crime Novel. Muller is the co-author of the Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery series with Bill Pronzini. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Dead Midnight
- Original publication date
- 2002-06
- People/Characters
- Sharon McCone; John McCone; Glenn Solomon; Roger Nagasawa; Daniel Nagasawa; Margaret Nagasawa (show all 21); Eddie Nagasawa; Harry Nagasawa; Jody Houston; Max Engstrom; Jorge Amaya; Dinah Vardon; J.D. Smith; Ted Smalley; Mick Savage; Charlotte Keim; Julia Rafael; Adah Joslyn; Craig Morland; Neal Osborn; Hy Ripinsky
- Important places
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Epigraph
- O coward conscience, how dost thou afflct me!
The lights burn blue, it is now dead midnight,
Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh;
What do I fear? Myself?
Shakespeare, Richard III - Dedication
- For Susan Richman,
One of my finest partners in crime - First words
- At one time or another, it happens to everyone.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"If you won't take my money, I know an excellent attorney who will."
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- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 9
- ASINs
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