Fleeting Glance
An Enescu Fleet Mystery
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $5.99
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Publisher Description
John Hathaway just wanted a quiet weekend alone with his fiancée. Instead, he receives a cryptic postcard from a man he’s never met, gets wrapped up in an elaborate art heist and finds himself framed for murder. And what’s worse, his future in-laws are in town! The palette is certainly thickening here, and there might be only one person who can rally the muses in time to string it all together: the Master himself, Enescu Fleet, retired private eye.
Named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2013 (starred review)
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)
