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The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam
bookshelves: summer-2013, published-2007, mystery-thriller, amusing, picaresque, dutch
Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Renee
Read from July 28 to 31, 2013
Read by Simon Vance
Thanks Renee. I have the Paris one too!
:O)
Raffles is the Gentleman Thief, and here we have arthritic Charlie, the fiction-writer thief. It works; instantly engaging.
BLURB: This impressive debut, a comic whodunit from British entertainment lawyer Ewan, owes much of its charm and success to its compelling antihero, Charles Howard. An established author of mysteries featuring a burglar-detective, Howard himself is a successful burglar. While finishing his latest novel in Amsterdam, Howard receives a cryptic invitation via his Web site and follows his curiosity to a meeting with a mysterious American who somehow knows of the author's secret profession. Howard initially declines the commission to steal two small plaster monkeys, but when he succeeds in his assignment, he finds his client has been brutally bludgeoned. After becoming a suspect, Howard scrambles to understand the link between the monkeys and a diamond heist over a decade earlier.
The ease with which Ewan creates a memorable protagonist and pits him against a plausible and tricky killer will be the envy of many more established authors. The detection is first-rate, and Howard is a fresh, irreverent creation who will make readers eager for his next exploit.
Unabridged (ca. 7 hours 16 minutes)
Read by Simon Vance
The better half, the metaphorical crown prince and I were sitting around after a nordic-walk, discussing the premise of a fiction writer who turns contract thief; after a while the topic turned to Michael Caine and Steve Martin in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Then this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europ...
bwhahaha
Please excuse us if we have no sympathy for some duchesses missing out on new tiaras.
The tie-up speech (denoument) was overly long
Thanks Renee. I have the Paris one too!
:O)
Raffles is the Gentleman Thief, and here we have arthritic Charlie, the fiction-writer thief. It works; instantly engaging.
BLURB: This impressive debut, a comic whodunit from British entertainment lawyer Ewan, owes much of its charm and success to its compelling antihero, Charles Howard. An established author of mysteries featuring a burglar-detective, Howard himself is a successful burglar. While finishing his latest novel in Amsterdam, Howard receives a cryptic invitation via his Web site and follows his curiosity to a meeting with a mysterious American who somehow knows of the author's secret profession. Howard initially declines the commission to steal two small plaster monkeys, but when he succeeds in his assignment, he finds his client has been brutally bludgeoned. After becoming a suspect, Howard scrambles to understand the link between the monkeys and a diamond heist over a decade earlier.
The ease with which Ewan creates a memorable protagonist and pits him against a plausible and tricky killer will be the envy of many more established authors. The detection is first-rate, and Howard is a fresh, irreverent creation who will make readers eager for his next exploit.
Unabridged (ca. 7 hours 16 minutes)
Read by Simon Vance
The better half, the metaphorical crown prince and I were sitting around after a nordic-walk, discussing the premise of a fiction writer who turns contract thief; after a while the topic turned to Michael Caine and Steve Martin in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Then this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europ...
bwhahaha
Please excuse us if we have no sympathy for some duchesses missing out on new tiaras.
The tie-up speech (denoument) was overly long
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