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Casualty Loss [Hardcover]

Jim Weikart (Author)
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The tax accountant as detective--and just in time, since the most urgent problem posed by the deaths of Donald and Joan Jasen is how much tax their children Jennifer and Dillon will have to pay on a suitcase full of partially burned money (Donald was carrying a receipt for half a million dollars from a dummy corporation) recovered from their wrecked car. Enter Donald's brother Jay, peerless uncle, tax consultant, and, eventually, detective--who not only solves the riddle of what Donald was doing with a videotape of a popular Congressman not being bribed, and not only figures out which of Donald's aging 60's buddies killed him and swiped a film of their last group dinner the night before, but also manages to leave his estate with a sizable net worth. Not the most ingenious puzzle you've ever seen, but written with real feeling for both children and their tax liabilities. First of a promised series. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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  • Hardcover: 181 pages
  • Publisher: Walker & Co; First Edition edition (August 1991)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0802757901
  • ISBN-13: 978-0802757906
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,583,119 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Captures the flavor of the Seinfeld neighborhood, June 23, 1998
This review is from: Casualty Loss (Hardcover)
Jim Weikart--tax accountant, novelist and political activist--knows well the Upper West Side of Manhattan near Columbia University (the "Seinfeld" neighborhood). It is a place that, in its own way, is as exotic as Conan Doyle's English Moors or Agatha Christie's Cornwall. Weikart captures the flavor of this community of yuppies, academics and street people (laced with an occasional mobster) quite well. One of the bars featured in his murder mystery series is apparently based on a watering hole only two blocks from Tom's restaurant, famous from the opening scene in many Seinfeld episodes.

I also recommend Weikart's earlier book, Harry's Last Tax Cut (a title which appears to spoof that of the celebrated Edwardian era mystery, Trent's Last Case).

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