Murder Off the Page
Reeks: The 42nd Street Library Mysteries
Con Lehane
- The
- third
- book
- in
- an
- amazing
- series
- that
- features
- crime
- à
- la
- library
- at
- America's
- most
- famous
- institution
- of
- higher
- reading.A
- note
- from
- bartender
- Brian
- McNulty,
- Raymond
- Ambler’s
- friend,
- confidant,
- and
- sometimes
- adviser,
- sets
- the
- librarian
- sleuth
- off
- on
- a
- murder
- investigation,
- one
- that
- he
- pursues
- reluctantly
- until
- a
- second
- murder
- upends
- the
- world
- as
- he
- knows
- it.
- The
- second
- victim
- is
- a
- lady
- friend
- of
- McNulty’s—and
- the
- prime
- suspect
- is
- McNulty
- himself.As
- Ambler
- pursues
- his
- investigation,
- he
- discovers
- that
- the
- murdered
- woman
- had
- a
- double
- life.
- Her
- intermittent
- visits
- to
- the
- city—a
- whirlwind
- of
- reckless
- drinking
- and
- illicit
- liaisons
- with
- men
- she
- met
- in
- the
- cocktail
- lounges—had
- their
- counterpart
- in
- suburban
- Fairfield
- County
- Connecticut
- where,
- as
- Dr.
- Sandra
- Dean,
- she
- practiced
- dermatology
- and
- lived
- in
- a
- gated
- community
- with
- a
- doting
- husband
- and
- a
- young
- daughter.While
- Ambler
- looks
- into
- the
- past
- of
- Dr.
- Sandra
- Dean
- to
- understand
- the
- murder
- of
- Shannon
- Darling
- in
- the
- present,
- NYPD
- homicide
- detective
- Mike
- Cosgrove
- investigates
- the
- men
- in
- Shannon
- Darling’s
- life.
- She
- might
- have
- been
- murdered
- because
- she
- frustrated
- the
- wrong
- man.
- It
- could
- have
- been
- a
- jealous
- wife.
- In
- fact,
- any
- number
- of
- people
- might
- have
- murdered
- Shannon
- Darling.
- Or,
- as
- Ambler
- suspects,
- did
- someone
- murder
- Dr.
- Sandra
- Dean?Yet,
- no
- matter
- which
- way
- he
- turns,
- McNulty
- emerges
- as
- a
- suspect.
- Ambler’s
- dilemma
- seems
- insurmountable:
- Should
- he
- keep
- searching
- for
- the
- truth
- behind
- the
- murders
- if
- the
- deeper
- he
- probes,
- the
- more
- evidence
- he
- finds
- that
- points
- to
- the
- morally
- rumpled
- bartender
- as
- a murderer?
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