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The Death Tape [Hardcover]

Kate Gallison (Author)


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July 1987
Trenton detective Nick Magaracz investigates the withdrawal of a large sum of money from the bank account of a man who is supposed to be dead and buried. As the man's widow prepares to kill him all over again, Nick uncovers his involvement in a terrorist plot to blow up a state office building.
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The author of Unbalanced Accounts returns with another case for Nick Magaracz, bureaucrat, bungler and hero in spite of himself. Nick thinks he's investigating a simple case of tax fraud, but soon he's stumbled upon a conspiracy to topple the state government of New Jersey. His adversaries, a gang of ultra-conservatives with fantasies of starting an army, are equally inept, if not more so. Although they're capable of concocting a sophisticated sabotage of the state's computer system, they're also likely to lock some prisoners in the same basement where they store their guns and ammo. The plot of this increasingly absurd crime drama is full of coincidences, stupidity, bad luck and just plain silliness. Gallison grounds this unlikely mix in enough technical information about death and taxes to keep the novel's eccentricities from becoming precious. The result is a fast, deadpan, intermittently funny mystery.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 154 pages
  • Publisher: Little Brown & Co (T); 1st edition (July 1987)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0316302996
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316302999
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,102,878 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Winner of the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance fiction prize for The Edge of Ruin, Kate Gallison writes the Emily Daggett Weiss silent movie mysteries under the name of Irene Fleming.

As Kate Gallison she wrote the acclaimed Mother Lavinia Grey murder mystery series about the struggles of a woman priest in the Episcopal church in a small New Jersey town, and another series about Nick Magaracz, a Trenton private detective.

She lives in Lambertville, New Jersey, with her husband and their cat. She is descended from a convicted Salem witch.

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