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Stone Angel #1
Stone Angel
Pete Sawyer is a private eye of a different kind. The son of a World War II American pilot and a brave French resistance fighter, he grew up on both sides of the Atlantic--though he prefers his sun-dappled villa on the Riviera to most other places. He takes pleasure in a fine wine...and a good gun. His French name is Pierre-Ange, and it suits him. In English, it means Stone Angel.
Pete's been hired by a wealthy American couple to locate their missing teenaged daughter. But when the detective tracks down Sarah Byrne's most recent Paris address, he finds not the girl, but the bloody trail of a band of terrorists.
What's the link between Sarah and the deadly group? And, more perplexing, what's the link between the group and the aristocratic Lemaire family, whose fortune was made by a Champagne business to rival Pommery and Mumm?
Pete Sawyer must use all his charm and cunning to solve these problems--and prevent a national disaster....
Pete's been hired by a wealthy American couple to locate their missing teenaged daughter. But when the detective tracks down Sarah Byrne's most recent Paris address, he finds not the girl, but the bloody trail of a band of terrorists.
What's the link between Sarah and the deadly group? And, more perplexing, what's the link between the group and the aristocratic Lemaire family, whose fortune was made by a Champagne business to rival Pommery and Mumm?
Pete Sawyer must use all his charm and cunning to solve these problems--and prevent a national disaster....
- GenresMystery
192 pages, Hardcover
First published May 12, 1986
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Marvin H. Albert
123 books20 followersAlso wrote under the names Mike Barone, Albert Conroy, Ian MacAlister, Nick Quarry, Anthony Rome, Al Conroy, Marvin Albert
"Marvin H. Albert, the author of more than 100 westerns, mysteries, spy novels and works of history, died on March 24 in Menton, in the south of France. He was 73 and lived in Mont Segur-sur-Lauzon.
The cause was a heart attack, said his daughter, Jan.
Mr. Albert was born in Philadelphia and served as a radio officer in the Merchant Marine during World War II. After working as the director of a children's theater troupe in Philadelphia, he moved to New York in 1950 and began writing and editing for the magazines Quick and Look. He turned to writing full time after the success of his novel "The Law and Jake Wade" (1956).
In addition to popular westerns, mysteries and novelizations of Hollywood films, he wrote "The Long White Road," a biography of the Arctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, "Broadsides and Boarders," a history of great sea captains, and "The Divorce," about Henry VIII. He wrote novels under his own name and under the pseudonyms Albert Conroy, Al Conroy, Nick Quarry, Anthony Rome, Ian MacAlister and J. D. Christilian."
By WILLIAM GRIMES
"Marvin H. Albert, the author of more than 100 westerns, mysteries, spy novels and works of history, died on March 24 in Menton, in the south of France. He was 73 and lived in Mont Segur-sur-Lauzon.
The cause was a heart attack, said his daughter, Jan.
Mr. Albert was born in Philadelphia and served as a radio officer in the Merchant Marine during World War II. After working as the director of a children's theater troupe in Philadelphia, he moved to New York in 1950 and began writing and editing for the magazines Quick and Look. He turned to writing full time after the success of his novel "The Law and Jake Wade" (1956).
In addition to popular westerns, mysteries and novelizations of Hollywood films, he wrote "The Long White Road," a biography of the Arctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, "Broadsides and Boarders," a history of great sea captains, and "The Divorce," about Henry VIII. He wrote novels under his own name and under the pseudonyms Albert Conroy, Al Conroy, Nick Quarry, Anthony Rome, Ian MacAlister and J. D. Christilian."
By WILLIAM GRIMES
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June 22, 2020
A re-read from 2008, still good stuff. Pierre-Ange (Stone-Angel) Sawyer is a half American, half French private eye splitting his time between Paris and the Riviera. Though he’s from the hard-boiled school of mystery, he’s also “continental suave.” Marvin Albert wrote over 100 novels and screen-plays, these nine Stone Angel tales were essentially his last offerings, and they’re grand fun to read.
Here, Sawyer is asked to locate the missing daughter of a wealthy American couple. He flies up to Paris, site of her last known address, and immediately lands in a right-wing terrorist shooting in a Jewish deli across the street from the young lady’s apartment; it turns out the shooters were perched in said apartment, and the authorities are quite interested in what Pierre-Ange knows about it all, which isn’t much. Let the action begin! It does, and it continues til the last page, which you’ll reach pretty quickly, it’s not easy to put this book down.
Here, Sawyer is asked to locate the missing daughter of a wealthy American couple. He flies up to Paris, site of her last known address, and immediately lands in a right-wing terrorist shooting in a Jewish deli across the street from the young lady’s apartment; it turns out the shooters were perched in said apartment, and the authorities are quite interested in what Pierre-Ange knows about it all, which isn’t much. Let the action begin! It does, and it continues til the last page, which you’ll reach pretty quickly, it’s not easy to put this book down.
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February 2, 2021Another lovely European Noir detective novel. I really enjoy some of the cultural signifiers in the books. It's set contemporary to it's publishing date in the early 1980s. Our lead will describe something like throwing on a pair of espadrilles along with shorts and a "sleeveless sweater" to go down to a brasserie in some riviera village. It's a look that was quite casual french chic at the time, and it creates a lovely image in my mind.
September 12, 2024
Un bon polar bien haletant avec la vision d'un américain à Paris. Dans les années 70/80 sans téléphone portable ni ordinateur... trop bien !
September 13, 2014
Kuulema aina pitää antaa kaikelle toinenkin mahdollisuus. Annoin siis toisen mahdollisuuden Stone Angel sarjalle.
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July 14, 2017
Exciting well written private investigator novel with a twist. Pete Sawyer is the child of a WWII deceased US airman and a French mother who was a hero of the Resistence.
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