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DEATH AT THE ART GALLERY - release date May 2014
Don D'Ammassa
Sometimes Murder can be a Fine Art.
“It isn’t a matter of trust, Dusty. It’s professional ethics. You’re not an employee and you’re not assigned to the
case.”
I felt her arms around my shoulders and figured she’d decided to drop the subject in favor of a more physical
pleasure when her hand slipped inside my jacket and deftly removed my wallet from the inside pocket. “And just what are you doing, young lady?”
Ignoring me, she opened the wallet, rif led through the paper money, and extracted a five.
“Is that for my share of supper?”
“No, supper is on me. This is my retainer.”
Convinced that her uncle Walter’s suicide was actually murder, Kari Spencer asks Private Investigator Paul Birch to look into the matter. Though he’s not convinced, Birch is willing to spend some time putting her fears to rest.
His investigation focuses on The Tontine, an art gallery where the dead man was part owner and where the partners have strong differences of opinion over how the business should be run. The deeper he probes, the murkier the investigation becomes; To make matters worse, Dusty, Birch’s insatiably curious writer girlfriend, becomes interested in the case and starts her own investigation.
As Birch picks his way through a series of threatening letters, questionable ethical practices, a quirky will, a mysterious twin brother, and a second death, what should have been a simple case turns into a deadly trap for Birch and the woman he loves.
Crime / Detective fiction
ISBN (print) 978-1-940581-93-4 / Trade paperback / 248 pages
ISBN (ebook) 978-1-940581-80-4 Amazon Kindle
ISBN (ebook) 978-1-940581-06-4 epub
Publication date: June 2014 (Panverse Publishing LLC)
Print distribution: Ingram
DEATH AT THE ART GALLERY - release date May 2014
Don D'Ammassa
Sometimes Murder can be a Fine Art.
“It isn’t a matter of trust, Dusty. It’s professional ethics. You’re not an employee and you’re not assigned to the
case.”
I felt her arms around my shoulders and figured she’d decided to drop the subject in favor of a more physical
pleasure when her hand slipped inside my jacket and deftly removed my wallet from the inside pocket. “And just what are you doing, young lady?”
Ignoring me, she opened the wallet, rif led through the paper money, and extracted a five.
“Is that for my share of supper?”
“No, supper is on me. This is my retainer.”
Convinced that her uncle Walter’s suicide was actually murder, Kari Spencer asks Private Investigator Paul Birch to look into the matter. Though he’s not convinced, Birch is willing to spend some time putting her fears to rest.
His investigation focuses on The Tontine, an art gallery where the dead man was part owner and where the partners have strong differences of opinion over how the business should be run. The deeper he probes, the murkier the investigation becomes; To make matters worse, Dusty, Birch’s insatiably curious writer girlfriend, becomes interested in the case and starts her own investigation.
As Birch picks his way through a series of threatening letters, questionable ethical practices, a quirky will, a mysterious twin brother, and a second death, what should have been a simple case turns into a deadly trap for Birch and the woman he loves.
Crime / Detective fiction
ISBN (print) 978-1-940581-93-4 / Trade paperback / 248 pages
ISBN (ebook) 978-1-940581-80-4 Amazon Kindle
ISBN (ebook) 978-1-940581-06-4 epub
Publication date: June 2014 (Panverse Publishing LLC)
Print distribution: Ingram