Fleeting Chance
An Enescu Fleet Mystery
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
The world’s most celebrated semiretired detective is back, this time for some cards, cruising and criminal investigation. In his fourth adventure, Enescu Fleet encounters treachery on and off the high seas. Along the way, he raises the stakes with a little hidden treasure, and goes all in on a mystery that will plumb the depths of his past. The puzzle pieces keep piling up, and so do the corpses. Does the best in the game have what it takes—or could he end up a sunken Fleet?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Young's fourth Enescu Fleet mystery (after 2013's Fleeting Note) is a nice blend of humor and detection, with a clever resolution that may surprise even veteran whodunit readers. "Sort of a modern, bearded Sherlock Holmes with a pronounced Hemingway complex," Fleet and his loyal sidekick, John Hathaway who's about to marry his longtime love interest, Lesley Darlington are among the passengers on The Stacked Deck, a yacht off the coast of Astorbay, Canada. A late-night poker game turns unexpectedly eventful when the play is interrupted by a cry of "man overboard." Fleet quickly retrieves the fallen passenger, math professor Arnold Bernard, from the cold waters, but when John returns to the parlor to resume the game, he finds that another player, Leslie MacDonald, has been stabbed to death. MacDonald's death is not the end of the violence, and a disappearance ups the ante for John significantly. Readers who prefer murder puzzles with a light touch will be satisfied. (BookLife)
