Research Catalog

Title

Epitaph / by James Siegel.

Author

Siegel, James

Publication

New York : Mysterious Press, c2001.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xi, 307 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Retired detective William Riskin is more or less waiting to die, until he comes across the obituary of his ex-partner, Jean Goldblum. A one-time war hero & concentration camp survivor, Goldblum had become a morally corrupt detective with a ruthless instinct for spotting guilt. But just before his death, Goldblum had started working on the most important case of his life, & out of loyalty to his memory, Riskin decides to finish it. He investigates the list of names that Goldblum left behind, & discovers a trail of disappearing elderly retirees who all told neighbors they were leaving for Florida, but never arrived. Following a string of dangerous clues, Riskin finds himself in hot pursuit of a little-known World War II criminal named Dr. Petoit, who, after promising sanctuary to hundreds of fleeing Jews in occupied France, led them to death in his own home. As Riskin uncovers Goldbum's own guilty part in these crimes, he himself comes face to face with the ultimate evil.

Subject

• Private investigators > New York > Fiction
• Physicians > Fiction
• Retirees > Fiction
• Nazis > Fiction
• Queens (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction
• Miami (Fla.) > Fiction

Genre/Form

Mystery fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 0892967129
• 0446678708 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^00040116^

OCLC

• 44110362
• SCSB-12836148

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library