The Fitzgerald Ruse

by de Castrique, Mark

• ISBN13: 9781590588048
• ISBN10: 1590588045
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-01
• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Pr

Summary

Former Chief Warrant Officer Sam Blackman, a disabled veteran, is opening a detective agency with his partner Nakayla Robertson. Their first client, a quirky elderly woman in a retirement community, makes a strange request. She wants Sam to right a wrong she committed over seventy years ago. Her victim--F. Scott Fitzgerald; her crime--stealing a manuscript when Fitzgerald resided in the stately Grove Park Inn. Samrs"s task seems simple enough: retrieve the womanrs"s lockbox and deliver the manuscript to Fitzgeraldrs"s heirs. Nothing is simple for Sam. The lockbox is sealed with a swastika, a symbol his client insists predates the Nazis and reflects a scene fromThe Great Gatsby. But when a security guard is killed and the lockbox disappears, Sam realizes this case is more than he bargained for.

Author Biography

Mark de Castrique grew up in the mountains of western North Carolina where he sets his Barry Clayton mystery series. Mark is a veteran of the television and film production industry and he serves as an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte