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A.J. Orde Death for Old Times' Sake
New York Doubleday 1992 0385419414 / 9780385419413 First Edition/first Printing Hardcover/Ex-Library Good
0385419414 Good-/Good c. 1992, russet/black bds. w/price clipped d.j., 249pp., (shelf wear, corners bumped, a few pages creased to corners, some crinkling and half moons from page turning, lt.soiling to a few pages, binding good, d.j. taped to bds., lt.edge wear, mylar cover, lt.rubbing). From Publishers WeeklyA crowded cast and an excess of fussy details further strain this mystery stuffed with too much plot. The melodrama includes extortion, murder, a Mafia connection, decades-old family secrets, a hereditary disease and the revelation of the foundling hero's true identity. Denver antiques dealer, interior designer and amateur sleuth Jason Lynx, met before in A Little Neighborhood Murder and Death and the Dogwalker, accompanies his policewoman lover Grace Willis on assignment to protect an abortion clinic from protesters. There Simonetta Leone Fixe, a right-to-life picketer from a Mafia family, is ice-picked to death; her recently deceased husband had been the recipient of a check written for an unknown purpose by Jason's foster father, who has also died recently. As Jason and Grace set out to trace the feeble-minded Simonetta's past, Jason finds himself a murder target. The convoluted, unconvincing plot includes much pro-choice propaganda, and while the Denver background is ably sketched, Jason pales next to his British counterpart, the roguish antigues dealer Lovejoy.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.From Kirkus ReviewsThe third outing for Denver antiques dealer/decorator Jason Lynx (Death and the Dogwalker; A Little Neighborhood Murder) reopens an issue Jason thought was permanently closed: Who badly burned him as a toddler and abandoned him to an orphanage? As Jason searches for the author of the extortion letters he finds in the effects of his foster father, it becomes clear that the person was related to simple-minded domestic Simonetta Fixe, who was murdered with an ice pick in front of an abortion clinic during a sit-in while Jason, unknowingly, watched it happen. Then the killer snipes at Jason, and, while gal pal Grace, a cop, tries to keep him safe, Jason runs afoul of the mob-connected Fixe family--in which two arranged marriages thwarted Jason's foster dad from marrying his true love in one case and may have resulted in Jason's illegitimate birth in the other. Meanwhile, more murders are revealed, and the more family secrets Jason uncovers, the less he's inclined to introduce himself properly to his birth family. One final death puts paid to an old family oath, and brings about Jason's ultimate acceptance of his roots. Complex, rich, and finely drawn. Jason's craving for a family and his ambivalence toward this specific one are strong stuff. A winner. --
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A.J. Orde Death for Old Times' Sake
New York Doubleday 1992 0385419414 / 9780385419413 First Edition/first Printing Hardcover/Ex-Library Good
0385419414 Good/Good c. 1992, russet/black bds. w/d.j., 249pp., (lt.shelf wear, corners bumped, text clean, binding good, d.j. taped to bds., lt.edge wear, mylar cover, lt.rubbing). From Publishers WeeklyA crowded cast and an excess of fussy details further strain this mystery stuffed with too much plot. The melodrama includes extortion, murder, a Mafia connection, decades-old family secrets, a hereditary disease and the revelation of the foundling hero's true identity. Denver antiques dealer, interior designer and amateur sleuth Jason Lynx, met before in A Little Neighborhood Murder and Death and the Dogwalker, accompanies his policewoman lover Grace Willis on assignment to protect an abortion clinic from protesters. There Simonetta Leone Fixe, a right-to-life picketer from a Mafia family, is ice-picked to death; her recently deceased husband had been the recipient of a check written for an unknown purpose by Jason's foster father, who has also died recently. As Jason and Grace set out to trace the feeble-minded Simonetta's past, Jason finds himself a murder target. The convoluted, unconvincing plot includes much pro-choice propaganda, and while the Denver background is ably sketched, Jason pales next to his British counterpart, the roguish antigues dealer Lovejoy.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.From Kirkus ReviewsThe third outing for Denver antiques dealer/decorator Jason Lynx (Death and the Dogwalker; A Little Neighborhood Murder) reopens an issue Jason thought was permanently closed: Who badly burned him as a toddler and abandoned him to an orphanage? As Jason searches for the author of the extortion letters he finds in the effects of his foster father, it becomes clear that the person was related to simple-minded domestic Simonetta Fixe, who was murdered with an ice pick in front of an abortion clinic during a sit-in while Jason, unknowingly, watched it happen. Then the killer snipes at Jason, and, while gal pal Grace, a cop, tries to keep him safe, Jason runs afoul of the mob-connected Fixe family--in which two arranged marriages thwarted Jason's foster dad from marrying his true love in one case and may have resulted in Jason's illegitimate birth in the other. Meanwhile, more murders are revealed, and the more family secrets Jason uncovers, the less he's inclined to introduce himself properly to his birth family. One final death puts paid to an old family oath, and brings about Jason's ultimate acceptance of his roots. Complex, rich, and finely drawn. Jason's craving for a family and his ambivalence toward this specific one are strong stuff. A winner. --
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