Howard Norman 
My Darling Detective [EPUB ebook] 

‘;[An] ingeniously plotted novel . . . Norman knows how to weave an enticing and satisfying mystery, one tantalizing thread at a time.’ New York Times Book Review A witty, engrossing homage to noir, from National Book Award finalist Howard Norman Jacob Rigolet, soon-to-be former assistant to a wealthy art collector, looks up from his seat at an auctionhis mother, former head librarian at the Halifax Free Library, is walking almost casually up the aisle. Before a stunned audience, she flings an open jar of ink at master photographer Robert Capa’s Death on a Leipzig Balcony. Jacob’s police detectivefiancee is assigned to the ensuing interrogation. My Darling Detective deliversa fond nod to classic noir, as Jacob’s understanding of the man he hasalways assumed to be his father unravels against the darker truth of Robert Emil, a police officer suspected of murdering two Jewish residents during an upswing of anti-Semitism in 1945.Thedenouement, involving a dire shootout and an emergency deliveryit’s the second Rigolet to be born in the Halifax library in a three decadesis Howard Norman at his uncannily moving best. ‘;Norman works with an offhand ease and grace . . . Whimsy is balanced by moments of powerfully evoked realism.’ Washington Post ‘;An unconventional, lively literary mystery.’ Kirkus Reviews