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The Birthday Murder (American Mystery Classics) by Lange Lewis
The Birthday Murder (American Mystery Classics) by Lange Lewis
A fiction writer and a B-movie director seem like the ideal match in the Hollywood hills, and with the groom working to produce the bride's novel for an upcoming film, marriage isn't the pair's only connection. But when the husband is found murdered on the wife's birthday -- using a method of poisoning found in one of her books -- their picture-perfect life takes a sudden nightmarish turn.
The case appears straightforward from the outside, with all signs pointing to the wife as the culprit. There's just one problem: no motive can be found. Now, to solve the mystery of whodunnit, the lead investigator will have to dig beneath the veneer of the household, revealing its inner workings in order to understand the deadly drama that unfolded just beneath the surface.
The Birthday Murder is a beautifully written and psychologically astute Golden Age mystery set in old Los Angeles, sure to please fans of vintage whodunnits and of standout domestic suspense authors from the era.
Lange Lewis (1915 - 2003) was the nom de plume of Oakland, California native Jane de Lange Lewis. Her Richard Tuck series, which includes The Birthday Murder, spanned five novels from 1942 - 1952.
PENZLER PUBLICATIONS, SOFTCOVER, 1945, 2023
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