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by Howard Norman (Author)
"[An] ingeniously plotted novel . . . Norman knows how to weave an enticing and satisfying mystery, one tantalizing thread at a time." -- New York Times Book Review
A witty, engrossing homage to noir, from National Book Award finalist Howard Norman Jacob Rigolet, soon-to-be former assistant to a wealthy art collector, looks up from his seat at an auction--his mother, former head librarian at the Halifax Free Library, is walking almost casually up the aisle. Before a stunned audience, she flings an open jar of ink at master photographer Robert Capa's Death on a Leipzig Balcony. Jacob's police detective fiancée is assigned to the ensuing interrogation.HOWARD NORMAN is a winner of the Lannan Award for fiction and a two-time National Book Award nominee. He is also author of the novels The Museum Guard, The Haunting of L, The Bird Artist, What Is Left the Daughter, and Next Life Might Be Kinder.