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Message from a Corpse
Fans of Nero Wolf, Kinsey Millhone and Hercule Poiriot will love Amy Brewster, the gargantuan, cigar-smoking, gourmand detective genius. In Message from a Corpse, she must catch a judge's killer before an innocent young man is convicted of murder
- GenresMystery
120 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1945
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Sam Merwin Jr.
91 books2 followersSamuel Kimball Merwin, Jr. was an American mystery fiction writer, editor and science fiction author, who published fiction mostly as Sam Merwin, Jr. His pseudonyms included Elizabeth Deare Bennett, Matt Lee, Jacques Jean Ferrat and Carter Sprague.
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January 18, 2019
A unique 1940s murder mystery expertly narrated by Jade O'Kelley.
August 6, 2020
If you are a fan of old style film noir detective tales, you will enjoy this book. Amy Brewster is a female attorney with huge appetites and the size to match. She is also becoming known as a crime solver and once again, Amy saves the day! Picture a female Nero Wolfe and you have a pretty good idea of Amy. She loves her cigars, gin and food!
Breck Barnum is a writer who becomes involved in a series of murders. Along the way, he meets a beautiful young woman (or two), a few gangsters, and a dapper but hard-nosed detective. The dialogue is great fun and very typical of the era in which the book is written. If it was written today, the reader would be rolling their eyes in disbelief. But, since that was the style of the 1940's Detective tales, it is great fun.
The narrator does a great job with the various voices for the different characters and her pacing is perfect. My only complaint is the mispronunciation of a lot of words. I found this tendency to be very distracting.
I was given the chance to listen to this audiobook by the Publisher and chose to review it.
Breck Barnum is a writer who becomes involved in a series of murders. Along the way, he meets a beautiful young woman (or two), a few gangsters, and a dapper but hard-nosed detective. The dialogue is great fun and very typical of the era in which the book is written. If it was written today, the reader would be rolling their eyes in disbelief. But, since that was the style of the 1940's Detective tales, it is great fun.
The narrator does a great job with the various voices for the different characters and her pacing is perfect. My only complaint is the mispronunciation of a lot of words. I found this tendency to be very distracting.
I was given the chance to listen to this audiobook by the Publisher and chose to review it.
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