- Mass Market Paperback
- Publisher: Bantam (Aug 1 1988)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0553274791
- ISBN-13: 978-0553274790
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 113 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,025,388 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
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Academic rivalry, petty jealousy, greed, and revenge form the backdrop for Maron's detective story featuring NYPD cop Sigrid Harald. Riley Quinn, deputy chairman of the art department at New York's Vanderlyn College, dies a grotesquely painful death when he drinks coffee laced with potassium dichromate, and it's up to Sigrid to find out whodunit. There are plenty of suspects, among them a disgruntled student, a female colleague whose promotion he blocked, another colleague with whom Quinn's wife was having a blatant affair, and a Hungarian handyman whose uncle left all his paintings to Quinn--paintings that are now worth a fortune. Maron is better known for her Judge Deborah Knott series, but the Harald novels, starring a character every bit as complex as Knott, are equally entertaining. This one was originally published in paper in 1982 and has been reprinted occasionally, but it remains difficult to track down. Maron fans should jump on it while they have a chance. Emily Melton
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
A new series featuring NYPD homicide detective Sigrid Harald There was more than coffee in Professor Quinn's morning coffee. Someone in the art department office had slipped in a spoonful of poison. Among the suspects are a young secretary, an enraged Hungarian maintenance man, and a colleague who had an affair with Quin's wife. NYPD detective Sigrid Harold is called in to find the killer with an artistic temperament and an aptitude for death.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A pretty good book to start the series,
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This review is from: One Coffee With (Mass Market Paperback)
This is the first book in Maron's Sigrid Harald series and her inexperience shows. The book gets off to a slow start and the solution is unconvincing.However, the characters are vivid and that makes up for a lot. And, as with any series, the first book gives the background for the rest of the books, and it is a good series.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining if embarrassing,
By A Customer
This review is from: One Coffee With (Mass Market Paperback)
A pleasant short cozy read. Her understanding of how academic titles, promotions and tenure work is embarrassingly wrong, and you'll just have to grit your teeth and imagine she's writing about a university in another country to make the plot work. Didn't she or her editor talk to a single academic to check this stuff out?
5.0 out of 5 stars
very entertaining. One of her better mysteries.,
By A Customer
This review is from: One Coffee With (Mass Market Paperback)
I've read 5 of Margaret Maron's books so far, and this rates up there with The Bootlegger's Daughter
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