Saratoga Hexameter - Stephen Dobyns - 1st and 50 similar items

Saratoga Hexameter by Stephen Dobyns, Hardcover, 1st Edition A Charlie Bradshaw Mystery Brand new condition with mylar covered dust jacket. Non-smoking home. Synopsis: A colleague's murder embroils Charles Bradshaw in literary mystery as a poem written in iambic pentameter provides a clue to a series of mysterious deaths, a poet-thief stalks the Bentley Hotel, and he poses as a poet to find the culprit harrassing a pompous literary critic From Publishers Weekly: This sixth in Dobyn's Charlie Bradshaw series (after Saratoga Longshot ), is sure to tickle fans of both poetry and detection. Dobyn's experiences in the world of the working poet (he's published six volumes of poetry and five literary novels) endow his latest mystery with particularly mordant humor. Luckless PI Charlie Bradshaw, called in to consult on a case involving poetry, discovers colleague Blake Moss dead on a merry-go-round in nearby Cohoes. Meanwhile, back at Charlie's mother's hotel in downtown Saratoga, N.Y., a bandit has pilfered a fortune in jewels from a guest's room, leaving an extremely bad poem in their stead. Then, in nearby Loudonville, Moss's lady friend reveals that the mysterious death of a beloved nurse has been memorialized through the poetry of an aged ex-jockey. And at a famous artists' colony on the outskirts of Saratoga, someone is terrorizing a critic via (artificial) dismembered limbs, hangings in effigy and (of course) bad poetry. Bradshaw goes undercover as a poet to solve the crime. The send-ups of the critical and artistic community are only some of the pleasures of this compact, seamless, tremendously amusing mystery in the best tradition of the genre. Thank you for shopping with us!