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The Hog Murders: A Regency Crime Thriller (The Niccolo Benedetti Mysteries) Kindle Edition

by William L. DeAndrea (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.6 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
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  1. Edgar AwardWinner, 1980
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In the Edgar Award–winning first title of the Niccolo Benedetti series, the celebrated detective hunts a serial killer who is terrorizing a small town
In the upstate New York town of Sparta, six people die in three weeks. At first the incidents seem accidental: A highway sign drops onto a car full of teenage girls, an old man falls down a set of stairs, and a boy is struck by a sheet of ice that had been building on his garage. But after each case a note turns up. Someone called “Hog” claims responsibility for each death, and taunts the police to catch him before he strikes again.             The deaths have everybody talking, and the local police department is eventually forced to share the case with famous Italian detective Niccolo Benedetti and his protégé, would-be cop turned private investigator Ron Gresham. A painter, ladies’ man, and rule-bending genius, Benedetti views every case as a chance to probe the nature of evil. And with his “analyze and imagine” method, he’ll pursue the killer both to stop him and to study him.        
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  1. Book 1 of 3
    The Niccolo Benedetti Mysteries
  2. Print length
    255 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
  5. Publication date
    December 18, 2012
  6. File size
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William L. DeAndrea (1952–1996) was born in Port Chester, New York. While working at the Murder Ink bookstore in New York City, he met mystery writer Jane Haddam, who became his wife. His first book, Killed in the Ratings (1978), won an Edgar Award in the best first mystery novel category. That debut launched a series centered on Matt Cobb, an executive problem-solver for a TV network who unravels murders alongside corporate foul play. DeAndrea’s other series included the Nero Wolfe–inspired Niccolo Benedetti novels, the Clifford Driscoll espionage series, and the Lobo Blacke/Quinn Booker Old West mysteries. A devoted student of the mystery genre, he also wrote a popular column for the Armchair Detective newsletter. One of his last works, the Edgar Award–winning Encyclopedia Mysteriosa (1994), is a thorough reference guide to sleuthing in books, film, radio, and TV.     

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00AEGIGEC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ MysteriousPress.com/Open Road (December 18, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 18, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4.0 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 255 pages
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William L. DeAndrea (1952–1996) was born in Port Chester, New York. While working at the Murder Ink bookstore in New York City, he met mystery writer Jane Haddam, who became his wife. His first book, Killed in the Ratings (1978), won an Edgar Award in the best first mystery novel category. That debut launched a series centered on Matt Cobb, an executive problem-solver for a TV network who unravels murders alongside corporate foul play. DeAndrea’s other series included the Nero Wolfe–inspired Niccolo Benedetti novels, the Clifford Driscoll espionage series, and the Lobo Blacke/Quinn Booker Old West mysteries. A devoted student of the mystery genre, he also wrote a popular column for the Armchair Detective newsletter. One of his last works, the Edgar Award–winning Encyclopedia Mysteriosa (1994), is a thorough reference guide to sleuthing in books, film, radio, and TV.

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  • Toni Curtis
    4.0 out of 5 stars Page Turner -- Good Vacation Book
    Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2014
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    interesting book -- skipped through the wordy prologue about the author, but now that I've read it, when I have time, I'll go back to it. Book was a good mystery -- could see it as a "made for tv."
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  • bart
    3.0 out of 5 stars Okay but not edge of seat reading
    Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2013
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    Was expecting a little more but this is a typical read. However, it was good for 3 hours of a 12 hour flight.
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  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Random accidents or a serial killer
    Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2020
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    Interesting twist resolves impossible scenario
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  • S. Williams
    4.0 out of 5 stars Fun.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2013
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    Enjoyed it. Nicely done. The author knows how to spin a tale, and keep the reader's interest. Go for it.
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  • Douglas J. Bassett
    2.0 out of 5 stars Underwhelming
    Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2013
    A bunch of detectives, both official and amateur, try to discover a mad killer in Sparta, New York. A rather underwhelming book that's gotten a lot of attention in recent years for reasons that completely escape me, unless it's simply a yearning for modern updates to traditional, Golden Age-style mysteries. The actual mystery part of the book did not strike me as especially devious, while I didn't pick out the murderer I knew pretty much the "hows" and "whys" of the thing. (The plot is really a blending of the plots of two famous mystery novels, to say which ones would reveal the secret to any knowledgeable fan -- but then I suspect knowledgeable fans would pick up on this themselves.) The writing is...dutiful, but has an earnest, "Look Ma, I'm telling a story" kind of vibe that a lot of fans use when they write fiction and which frankly I found fairly off-putting. I can't say there's anything wrong with it, it's not awful, but it plods along, dutifully checking every requisite box, and one can feel the huffing and puffing behind it. Whatever else you want to think about the classic writers of the past that HOG is emulating, their prose came from them, they had distinctive styles and artistry, to be blunt about it. One way to describe the prose here is that this is the kind of book that somebody who mainly knows about books, not life, would write -- it's most reminiscent of other titles. (So we have a self-consciously eccentric detective, a self-consciously wisecracking Archie Goodwin style sidekick, etc.) Oddly the most interesting character here is the self-conscious female psychologist, who is really here to function as a love interest but almost incidentally has an interesting backstory and personality. I wish she was the heroine of this thing.
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  • plum9195
    4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good Read
    Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2016
    Nice and interesting novel. Did make you wonder and think. Did feel the characters were not very well devleoped - really getting married after just a few weeks? Novel didn't need that to be successful, it was like it was just a "nod" to what he thought was supposed to happen in a book. Will read the next in the series.
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  • Lawrence Martin
    3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2016
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    Good but not great.
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  • tom m
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!
    Reviewed in the United States on February 29, 2016
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    Interesting reading. I enjoyed it very much.
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