West heart kill / Dann McDorman.
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TextPublisher: New York : Random House Large Print, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Edition: Large print editionDescription: 387 pages (large print) : map ; 24 cmContent type: cartographic image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780593793053Subject(s): Hunting and fishing clubs -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Private clubs -- Fiction | Private investigators -- Fiction | Rich people -- Fiction | Secrecy -- Fiction | Storms -- Fiction | Suspects (Criminal investigation) -- FictionGenre/Form: Large type books. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Experimental fiction. | Psychological fiction. Summary: A remote, old-money hunting lodge. A raging storm. A locked room. Three corpses, discovered within four days. A cast of monied, scheming, unfaithful characters. You may think you've read this story. But think again. When private detective Adam McAnnis joins an old college friend for the Bicentennial weekend at the exclusive West Heart club in upstate New York, he finds himself among a set of not-entirely-friendly strangers. Then the body of one of the members is found at the lake's edge; hours later, a major storm hits. By the time power is restored on Sunday, two more people will be dead. The elements of the classic murder mystery are all present in West Hart Kill, but it's the daring structure and mischievously subversive narration that set this debut apart. This is no ordinary whodunit. Both an homage to the masters of the genre and w holly original spin on the form, it's a sheer delight from start to finish.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Large Print | F MCD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111088000110 |
A remote, old-money hunting lodge. A raging storm. A locked room. Three corpses, discovered within four days. A cast of monied, scheming, unfaithful characters. You may think you've read this story. But think again. When private detective Adam McAnnis joins an old college friend for the Bicentennial weekend at the exclusive West Heart club in upstate New York, he finds himself among a set of not-entirely-friendly strangers. Then the body of one of the members is found at the lake's edge; hours later, a major storm hits. By the time power is restored on Sunday, two more people will be dead. The elements of the classic murder mystery are all present in West Hart Kill, but it's the daring structure and mischievously subversive narration that set this debut apart. This is no ordinary whodunit. Both an homage to the masters of the genre and w holly original spin on the form, it's a sheer delight from start to finish.
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