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A relic of Manhattan's Gilded Age, the Erich Bruel House on Gramercy Park contained three floors of glorious art--and one Christmas corpse. Now it's up to Lieutenant Sigrid Harald to wrap up this homicide before the killer strikes again in this classic mystery by the author of Rituals of the Season.
Author Notes
Margaret Maron grew up in rural North Carolina. She attended college for two years before a summer job at the Pentagon led to marriage, a tour of duty in Italy, than several years in Brooklyn, New York before moving back to North Carolina. She is the author of the Sigrid Harald Mystery series, the Deborah Knott Mystery series, Bloody Kin, and Last Lessons of Summer. Bootlegger's Daughter won the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony and Macavity Awards for Best Mystery in 1992. "Up Jumps the Devil" won the 1996 "Best Novel" Agatha award. "High Country Fall" was nominated for an Agatha Award in 2004 and also picked up a Macavity nomination the following year. "Three-Day Town" won the 2011 Agatha Award for "Best Novel". "Long Upon the Land" won the Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel of 2015.Margaret is a founding member and past president of sisters in Crime and of the American Crime Writer's League; She is a director on the national board for Mystery Writers of America.
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Reviews (1)
Kirkus Review
A fifth outing for cool, reserved, socially inept Sigrid Harald of the NYPD, who now has replaced the vivacious, gorgeous Francesca Leeds as artist Oscar Nauman's lover. Lady Francesca wants Oscar to agree to a retrospective of his work to benefit the beleaguered Erich Bruel House, which has a modest and mostly unvisited collection of turn-of-the-century art. Before plans are finalized, however, the newest (and much disliked) trustee, art historian Roger Shambley, is murdered in the dead of night by a blow from a Victorian cane. Whodunit possibilities include Pascal--the young, beautiful, and retarded janitor--and Richard, grandson of octogenarian Munson, senior trustee and art-gallery owner. The boys moved the body in order to hide their ""friendship."" Then there are also: a shipping magnate who buys stolen art; a docent whom the board passed over in favor of Shambley; and the House director and a gallery owner who takes kickbacks for falsified insurance appraisals--all grist for Shambley's blackmailing mill. In unconvincing fashion, Sigrid and her cohorts' stodgy detective work eventually nails the murderer--and everyone else is free to go about Christmas shopping. Flat prose, and Sigrid, even when she unbends, is still dull. Of marginal interest. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
