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My darling detective, Howard Norman

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My darling detective

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Howard Norman

"Jacob Rigolet, soon to be fired from his position as assistant to a wealthy art collector, looks up from his seat at an auction to see his mother, Nora Ives Rigolet, until that day head librarian at Halifax Free Library, walk almost casually up the aisle and fling an open jar of black ink at master photographer Robert Capa's "Death on a Leipzig Balcony." Jacob's fiancee, the erotically accomplished Detective Martha Crauchet, is assigned to the interrogation. In My Darling Detective, Howard Norman delivers a fond and witty homage to noir, as Jacob's understanding of the man he has always assumed to be his father unravels against the darker truth of Emil Smith, a Halifax police officer suspected but never convicted of murdering two Jewish residents during the shocking upswing of anti semitism in 1945, the year Jacob was born. The denouement, involving a dire shootout and an emergency delivery--it's the second Rigolet to be born in the Halifax Free Library in a span of three decades--is Howard Norman at his "provocative...haunting"* and uncannily moving best. *(Janet Maslin, New York Times)"--, Provided by publisher

Front Cover; Front Flap; Front Matter; Half Title; Other Books by this Author; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Interlocutrix; Halifax Isn't Mentioned in the Old Testament; So You're Telling Me That I Was Born in the Halifax Free Library and the Man I Thought Was My Father Was Not Really My Father; You Detectives Stopped By Quite Early; Arts and Crafts; Delinquent Notices; The End of the War Café; The Auction in London; Library Science; Look How Much Can Happen of an Evening; At the Kitchen Table; My Father, Officer Robert Emil: Part One; My Father, Officer Robert Emil: Part TwoYour Father May Still Be Right Here in HalifaxRadio Detective Frederik Levy's Love Life; Letter from Bernard Rigolet; Straight-B Student; The Deeper Concerns of Martha; Visiting Nora at Nova Scotia Rest Hospital; Martha's Seven-Month Plan; Nora's Over the Moon; Housewarming; My Life in Library Science; In the Waiting Room; Letter from Bernard Rigolet; Questioning Robert Emil: Part One; Detective Emil Detects; Blaming Ghosts; Questioning Robert Emil: Part Two; Letter from Bernard Rigolet; Homage to Forest Potsholme; Questioning Robert Emil: Part Three; Ours Is Not a Lending LibraryI Couldn't Bear It If Something Terrible Should Befall Leah DiamondDeeply Communing with the So-Far Invisible World; Intuitive Prophecy; Silent Night; Eleven Very Crowded Hours; The Tahiti Portfolio; Letter from Bernard Rigolet; Family Life; Back Matter; Acknowledgments; Back Flap; Back Cover; Spine