- Hardcover: 234 pages
- Publisher: Doubleday (May 1 1992)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0385420897
- ISBN-13: 978-0385420891
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.7 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 408 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #683,527 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Mysterious killings at the Olympique Scientific Internationale (an eminent astronomer, an investigating police officer, an annoying scientist turned amateur sleuth)--committed by what sounds, from the one surviving witness's account, like a werewolf--flush out formidably brainy Niccolo Benedetti and his Nick-and-Nora satellites Ron Gentry and Janet Higgins (The Hog Murders). Despite the hints of the supernatural, this is pure Agatha Christie, with negligible characters, a novel (but unconvincingly evoked) setting, ingenious clues, a most-unlikely-culprit, and a shameless theft of two of Christie's favorite clich‚s of misdirection that shouldn't fool you for a minute. For retro fans, a pleasant enough couple of hours. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Another fun 4.5 star book by DeAndrea, Sep 4 2007
By Neal J. Pollock - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Werewolf Murders (Hardcover)
DeAndrea has series with different protagonists. This book is one of his Professor Niccolo Benedetti series as was his Edgar-winning The Hog Murders. It's a good mystery, well-written, and (per the other 2 books of his I've read) has considerable humor in it. Though the one Matt Cobb series book I've read, KILLED IN FRINGE TIME: A Matt Cobb Mystery, was even funnier IMHO. Some examples "Werewolf Murders": p. 28: "His genes had left him down by giving him a pair of eyes so myopic he needed glasses to figure out which wall the eye chart was hung on" and p. 107: "He tried thinking of the next one as an escargot rather than, say, slug-on-the-half-shell, but that didn't work."
In this book, Bennedetti's assistant, PI Ron Gentry is accompanied by his wife--psychologist Janet Higgins--who provides considerable insights into the intriguing characters, such as: p. 34: "She doubted anybody would want to study the workings of other people's minds if they found their own uninteresting" and p. 35: "Criminals, no matter how small-time, no matter how frequently they went to jail, were invincible egotists...Mostly, people stole and beat and killed out of an overweening sense that they had the right to whatever they wanted, to the gratification of every whim."
This is a fun series, I plan to read more--and more Matt Cobb as well. I believe he has also written under the name Philip DeGrave & also writes historical and espionage novels.
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