Howard Engel, Author . Overlook $24.95 (212p) ISBN 978-1-58567-417-6
Canadian Engel's serviceable venture into the Sherlock Holmes genre suffers by comparison to David Pirie's The Patient's Eyes
(2002), likewise substituting a young Arthur Conan Doyle and his real-life mentor, Dr. Joseph Bell, for Watson
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Howard Engel, Author Overlook Press $22.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-87951-829-5
The eight previous adventures of Canadian PI Benny Cooperman (Murder Sees the Light, etc.) have garnered praise for their slick plotting and erudite prose. This time out, Engel's prose still hums, but the plot groans a bit. Despite a life of crime,...
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Howard Engel, Author Overlook Press $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-87951-701-4
Taking a break from his Benny Cooperman mysteries, Engel (Getting Away with Murder) presents a Parisian mystery involving cafes, romance, murder and lots of wine. In the fall of 1925, Canadian journalist Mike Ward arrives in the City of Light in...
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Howard Engel, Author Overlook Press $24.95 (262p) ISBN 978-1-58567-044-4
Canadian PI Benny Cooperman returns in this agreeable if not top-notch offering from Arthur Ellis Award-winner Engel (Getting Away with Murder; Murder on Location; etc.), set in the town of Grantham, Ontario. Kogan, the caretaker of Cooperman's...
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Howard Engel, Author Overlook Press $24.95 (279p) ISBN 978-1-58567-233-2
When vision of loveliness Stella Seco""now known as Vanessa Moss""appears in charming Jewish gumshoe Benny Coopermans Ontario office, its not, unfortunately, a social call, even though they went to school together. Because a friend wearing ...
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Howard Engel, Author St. Martin's Press $0 (275p) ISBN 978-0-312-02315-7
Acclaimed Canadian mystery writer Engel presents another winner about disarmingly honest Benny Cooperman, private investigator of Grantham, Ontario ( A City Called July , The Ransom Game ). Pambos Kiriakis is killed after he asks the detective to...
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Howard Engel, Author Penguin Books $3.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-14-011205-4
``Acclaimed Canadian mystery writer Engel presents another winner about disarmingly honest Benny Cooperman, private investigator of Grantham, Ontario,'' observed PW . Here Cooperman investigates a number of prominent citizens who borrowed paintings...
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Howard Engel, Author, Oliver W. Sacks, Afterword by Carroll & Graf Publishers $24 (248p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1644-9
Engel's 11th Benny Cooperman mystery (The Cooperman Variations , etc.) is notable because it's the Canadian author's first novel since 2000, when a small stroke left him with a rare disorder that rendered him able to write but unable to read. His PI
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Howard Engel, Author, Oliver Sacks, Afterword by . Carroll & Graf $24 (248p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1717-0
Engel's 11th Benny Cooperman mystery (The Cooperman Variations
, etc.) is notable because it's the Canadian author's first novel since 2000, when a small stroke left him with a rare disorder that rendered him able to write but unable to...
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Howard Engel, Author, Oliver Sacks, Afterword by Thomas Dunne Books $19.95 (157p) ISBN 978-0-312-38209-4
In Engel's memoir, he relates the difficult journey from bookworm word-jockey to near-illiterate and back again; a successful mystery novelist in his native Canada, Engel awoke one morning to discover he'd lost the ability to read. Soon, he's...
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