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Murder at the Flea Club: Mary Finney #4 (Dr. Mary Finney) Kindle Edition

by Matthew Head (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
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A medical missionary in post-WWII Paris is out to solve the murder of a nightclub singer in this 1955 mystery by the author of The Devil in the Bush.
 
Paris at the height of its post-War chic is a far cry from the African backwaters that Hoop Taliaferro has been calling home. But with his American charm and American dollars, he fits in anywhere. He especially fits in at the Flea Club, a naughty nightclub for people who have pretty tame ideas of naughty. The real draw is Nicole, a third-rate chanteuse singing sad songs for the bored expats holding up the bar. When someone silences the music, it falls to Hoop to put things right.
 
Sleuthing’s not really Hoop’s line. He runs more to clever quips and nicely ironed khakis. But he is saved, once again, by the timely arrival of the redoubtable Dr. Mary Finney. Stomping through the City of Light in her sensible shoes, Mary is everything Nicole wasn’t—including one step ahead of her killer.
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    Dr. Mary Finney
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    202 pages
  3. Language
    English
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    On Kindle Scribe
  5. Publisher
    Felony & Mayhem Press
  6. Publication date
    March 1, 2018
  7. File size
    1924 KB
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About the Author

Matthew Head is the pseudonym of John Edwin Canaday (1907-1985), an art critic and writer. Canaday was a New York Times art critic for seventeen years and authored several monographs of visual art scholarship. Late in life he wrote restaurant reviews for the Times. Under the Matthew Head pen name he wrote seven mystery novels, three of which are set in the Congo and based on his experiences traveling there as a French translator in 1943. Canaday was born in Fort Scott, KS; his series sleuth, Dr. Mary Finney, is said to be from Fort Scott as well.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07DWM6D6T
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Felony & Mayhem Press (March 1, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 1, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1924 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 202 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

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4.3 out of 5 stars
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Gail Harold Skinner
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2018
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Patto
5.0 out of 5 stars An engaging tale of murder, night life & passion in Paris
Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2022
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This is the fourth book in the Dr. Mary Finney series. In these pages the sleuthing moves from Africa to Paris.

Dr. Finney is a middle-aged, stocky, freckled missionary with a reputation as an amateur sleuth. But being used to the characters in her normal stomping grounds, the Congo, she’s not confident of solving a murder in a Paris nightclub. She’s in Europe on a lecture tour. Her young friend Hoop Taliaferro is in Paris after three years in the Congo, and he’s happy to serve as her Watson. The murder victim was a singer he admired at his club, oddly named the Flea Club.

The plot is replete with personal dramas and romantic surprises, some charming, others unsavory or pathetic. The writing is witty and wonderful. And there are some delightfully quirky characters.

I read and relished the first three books in the series years ago. They’re still on my shelves, waiting for me to read them again sometime. Matthew Head wrote seven mysteries. I wish more were in print.
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