Cast for Death (Black Dagger Crime) [Hardcover]

Margaret Yorke (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1997 | Series: Black Dagger Crime

What is the reason for the apparent suicide of the actor Sam Irwin? The accidental death of a dog and a series of art robberies seems to have no connection with the murder, until an old acquaintance of Sam''s, Patrick Grant, gets on the case. '

Product Details

• Hardcover: 182 pages
• Publisher: Black Dagger Crime (June 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0745186858
• ISBN-13: 978-0745186856
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,816,893 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not what I hoped for, April 21, 2010

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CMBohn "cmb" (Orem, UT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cast for Death (Black Dagger Crime) (Hardcover)

I always enjoy mysteries with a Shakespearian twist. This one had a cover with "Macbeth" written on a paper. Macbeth is my favorite Shakespeare play, so I was really excited to find this one at the library.

Unfortunately, there's only a very slim link to the Scottish play. An Oxford don named Patrick Grant is looking forward to seeing a friend play Macduff, but instead an understudy takes the role and his friend is a no show. Then he learns that the friend is dead by suicide. Grant, who has investigated crimes before, looks into the death. He can't accept it as suicide. As he follows the leads, he discovers art fraud and espionage.

The ending was a little hard to follow and not very convincing. I don't know if I've read any in this series before, but her book "No Medals for the Major" is excellent. Read that instead, but if you do, don't read the preface to this book first, because it gives the ending away.