When the life of a controversial producer of mega-musicals is threatened, Captain Bill Donovan, chief of special investigations for the City of New York, is called upon to sort through the suspects and find the would-be murderer.
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Do all police departments have special divisions devoted to "weird suspects and exotic weapons?" Apparently the NYPD of Michael Jahn's imagination does, for weird and exotic is what Captain Bill Donovan specializes in. In Murder on Theatre Row Donovan is confronted with murder-by-crossbow at a performance of "Casablanca: The Musical." In the course of solving this peculiar crime, Donovan will run across a dead vaudevillian, an alcoholic critic and an English Impresario with a taste in musicals so bad as to rival that of Zero Mostel's character in The Producers.
Okay, so the plot's outrageous and the investigative methods a mite shaky. Still, anyone who loves show business will enjoy this ride through the backstage world of Times Square accompanied by the quirky characters Jahn scatters liberally throughout his story.
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In his fifth procedural starring Bill Donovan and, equally, the city of New York, Jahn has promoted his homicide detective to captain and made him chief of special investigations for the city. Otherwise, it's business as usual--or rather, as unusual--for this unconventional but much-decorated cop whose fascination with weird suspects and exotic weapons tends to involve him in bizarre murders committed in the city's historic landmarks. In this case, the setting is the Old Knickerbocker Theater, where a killer with a crossbow is disrupting rehearsals for the latest glitzy opus of Sir John Victor Holland: the British producer is turning the movie classic Casablanca into a megamusical--a crime in itself, as Donovan sees it. The mystery's theatrical setting, always fertile ground for eccentric suspects, also offers scope for Jahn's sardonic humor and a chance to display both his savvy about contemporary New York and his interest in the city's cultural history and lore. Gail Pool
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This review is from: Murder on Theatre Row: A Bill Donovan Mystery (Bill Donovan Mysteries) (Hardcover)
This is the first Jahn mystery I've read and it's a good one. Capt. Bill Donovan of the NYPD specializes in exotic crimes and zeros in on a murder committed with an old crossbow in a theater that is being renovated for a new musical to open New Year's eve. There are connected crimes having to do with real estate machinations. There's a ghost story, spooky cellars under the theater, colorful characters, such as a NY Times critic who specializes in rock 'n roll and who has a major drinking problem, a black jazz musician doing a stint as an actor, the old agent of a long dead vaudevillian, who just may be the ghost. Capt. Donovan has an able sargeant and a personal life with a girlfriend who's a retired cop, now running a restaurant and while it's referred to, it in no way detracts from this modern police procedural filled with interesting bits about New York and it's theatre district. I look forward to finding other books in this series.
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