Death Going Down
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
This intelligent postwar tale of survival and extortion, obsession and lies, is a classic detective novel from the Argentinian Agatha Christie
In the early hours of the morning, a woman is found in the elevator of a plush apartment block on Santa Fe Road, Buenos Aires. She's young, gorgeous—and dead.
It looks like suicide, and yet none of the building’s residents can be trusted; the man who discovered her is a womanizing drunk; her husband is behaving strangely; and upstairs, a photographer and his sister appear to be hiding something sinister. When Inspector Ericourt and his colleague Blasi are set on the trail of some missing photographs, a disturbing secret past begins to unravel.
Set during the aftermath of World War II, when many immigrants left Europe for Argentina—some of them with dark pasts to hide—Death Going Down contains all the ingredients of a classic detective novel.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Known as the Argentinian Agatha Christie, Bosco (1917 2006) published her first crime novel in 1954. This competent if unexceptional puzzler is now available in English for the first time. Early one morning, an inebriated Pancho Soler returns home to his upscale apartment building in Buenos Aires. Inside the elevator is a pale young woman in a fur coat slumped against a back panel. Soler gets a rude shock when he touches the woman's cold skin. She's later identified as Frida Eidinger, who recently moved to Argentina from Germany with her new husband, Gustavo; she died of cyanide poisoning, an apparent suicide. While not a resident, Eidinger had a key to the building. Supt. Insp. Santiago Ericourt, a somewhat generic sleuth, investigates what becomes a murder case. Ericourt must sort out the victim's complex relationships with Gustavo and the building's residents, as well as the interrelationships among the latter. In the end, Ericourt gathers all the suspects for a reconstruction of the crime in a denouement that falls short of Christie's standard.
