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A former FBI agent gets entangled in a financial mogul's murder in this "superior" whodunit series (Publishers Weekly).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 show more 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.
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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.
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.
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- Canonical title
- Feast of Murder
- Original publication date
- 1992-11
- People/Characters
- Julie Anderwahl; Mark Anderwahl; Calvin Baird (Jonathan Baird's brother); Fritzie Baird (Jonathan Baird's ex-wife); Jonathan Edgewick Baird; Sheila Baird (Jonathan Baird's second wife) (show all 14); Tony Baird (Jonathan Baird's son); Gregor Demarkian; Bennis Day Hannaford; Bobby Hannaford (Robert Hannaford); Tibor Kasparian (Father); Donald McAdam; Charlie Shay; George Tekamanian
- Important places
- New York, New York, USA; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (Cavanaugh Street); Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA; aboard the Pilgrimage Green; New York, USA; Pennsylvania, USA
- First words
- It was twilight of a day at the end of August, one of those times when light and dark wrap themselves around each other like tresses in a braid. (prologue)
On the day the very young man from the Federal Bureau of Investigation came to Cavanaugh Street, Gregor Demarkian found a picture of the Pilgrimage Green in the morning mail. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Later that day, though, when all the refugees got together and sang that song at Lida's - followed, as he should have suspected, by "America the Beautiful" - Gregor stayed put to listen.
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