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Puzzle for Puppets (The Peter Duluth Mysteries) Kindle Edition

by Patrick Quentin (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
In this mystery from an Edgar Award–winning author, Peter Duluth deals with a case of mistaken identities and murder in World War II San Francisco.
 
Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms, including Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge. Anthony Boucher wrote: “Quentin is particularly noted for the enviable polish and grace which make him one of the leading American fabricants of the murderous comedy of manners; but this surface smoothness conceals intricate and meticulous plot construction as faultless as that of Agatha Christie.”
 
As the war rages in the Pacific, naval lieutenant Peter Duluth is ecstatic to make port and spend time with his ladylove, Iris. They have little luck finding a room until a brassy blond offers them her hotel suite out of what seems like pure charity. And that’s when Peter’s shore leave starts going sideways.
 
While unwinding in a steam room, Peter’s uniform is stolen. Then, Iris is mistaken several times for her cousin, a local vamp with a very unusual coterie of friends. And things hit a bloody head when Peter’s missing uniform ends up implicating him in murder.
 
Now, with both of their identities in flux, Peter and Iris must navigate their way through the fog-shrouded alleys of the City by the Bay if they’re going to learn just what kind of mess they’re caught up in . . . and if they can get out of it alive.
 
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    The Peter Duluth Mysteries
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    286 pages
  3. Language
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  5. Publication date
    August 28, 2018
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Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick, and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler (1912–1987), Richard Wilson Webb (1901–1966), Martha Mott Kelley (1906–2005), and Mary Louise White Aswell (1902–1984) wrote detective fiction. Most of the stories were written together by Webb and Wheeler, or by Wheeler alone. Their best-known creation is amateur sleuth Peter Duluth. In 1963, the story collection The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow was given a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America.
 

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07DVX2L65
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ MysteriousPress.com/Open Road (August 28, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 28, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 6.6 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 286 pages
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    I went to school for about 20 years; I enjoy writing a lot I suppose. When I was very young I attended American School of Paris where I achieved very high marks on the English placement exam. I finished at University of California, Davis in 2007 with degree in Political Science and Psychology.

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    I went to school for about 20 years; I enjoy writing a lot I suppose. When I was very young I attended American School of Paris where I achieved very high marks on the English placement exam. I finished at University of California, Davis in 2007 with degree in Political Science and Psychology.

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  • Ken Braithwaite
    4.0 out of 5 stars Frothy fun
    Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2018
    This is a fast moving, funny, frothy bit of mystery fun. It could be a movie from the era starring Myrna Loy, with snappy dialogue and sly humor. The plot gets a bit too “zany” in the latter part of the book unfortunately, but the humor and lean prose are a big plus.
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