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Unforced Error: A Rep and Melissa Pennyworth Mystery: A Rep and Melissa Pennyworth Mystery (Rep and Melissa Pennyworth Mysteries) - Softcover
Intellectual property attorneys, romance publishers, and librarians - the very last people you'd expect to be mixed up in murder! Add a pinch of authentic Civil War re - enactors and a sparkling tour of Kansas City, and voila, a classic yet up - to - the - minute crime. Rep and Melissa Pennyworth head west from Indiana to a re - enactment of a Civil War battle in Kansas City, Missouri. Rep is really in quest of a cutting - edge copyright case connected with romance publishing house Jackrabbit Press. He finds a corpse instead. Linda Damon, Melissa's best girlhood friend, worked for the victim, an editor (and womanizer) before his death. Linda's husband, librarian Peter, an enthusiastic Civil War hobbyist, had motive (it must be said that on one recent occasion Linda became a bit too involved in her job), means (a Civil War saber that upon examination proves to be drenched in the victim's blood), and opportunity (a publishing party). Logically, Rep's knowledge of trademark and copyright law, Melissa's Ph.D. in Literature, and the passionate enthusiasm for all things English embraced by Peter's boss at the KC library, Diane Klimchock, should be no help in what is clearly a case for the police. However, when Rep and Melissa are involved in crime, logic is seldom a reliable guide, as we saw in their earlier investigation, Screenscam. While Unforced Error is great good fun as a mystery, as forecast in its witty (and startling) opening scene, it reminds us about the relevance of language, of words, to everything we do.
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In Bowen's well-crafted, well-researched second Rep and Melissa Pennyworth misadventure (after 2001's Screenscam), the couple hook up with their good friends librarian Peter Damon and his wife Linda in Kansas City, Mo., for a reenactment of an obscure Civil War battle. Rep, a trademark and copyright lawyer, also hopes to woo as a client the book publisher Linda works for, Jackrabbit Press, whose head, John Paul Lawrence, views reenactments as a means to promote his company's line of bodice-ripping historical romances. When Rep discovers the saber-slit body of Linda's co-worker, Thomas Quinlan, just after Linda confesses to Melissa that her relationship with Quinlan has advanced from boardroom to boudoir, the mild-mannered Peter becomes the chief murder suspect. After Peter disappears, Rep uncovers an astounding plot that will certainly catch the
reader by surprise. Amusing references to cultural icons both high and low punctuate the narrative (e.g., in the space of one page, Wuthering Heights, Evelyn Waugh, the Audrey Hepburn character in Charade, Kirk Douglas and Seven Days in May, both the book and the movie. A fictional reality-TV program provides the neat twist in the novel's clever opening chapter. And
the Civil War stuff is a treat, too: fans of more literate mysteries have good reason to cheer. -- Publishers Weekly 3.22.2004
"A modern-day Nick and Nora, the quick-witted Rip and the literature-loving Melissa trade sophisticated quips that may make readers wish they had paid more attention in English class. Good fun...." --Booklist
Unforced Error scintillates with witty badinage,
trenchant humor, deft plotting and amusing
characters. Bowen's command of Civil War arcana floored me, and his sly cultural commentary cuts like an 1840 heavy cavalry dragoon saber.""
-Michael Biehl
About the Author:
reader by surprise. Amusing references to cultural icons both high and low punctuate the narrative (e.g., in the space of one page, Wuthering Heights, Evelyn Waugh, the Audrey Hepburn character in Charade, Kirk Douglas and Seven Days in May, both the book and the movie. A fictional reality-TV program provides the neat twist in the novel's clever opening chapter. And
the Civil War stuff is a treat, too: fans of more literate mysteries have good reason to cheer. -- Publishers Weekly 3.22.2004
"A modern-day Nick and Nora, the quick-witted Rip and the literature-loving Melissa trade sophisticated quips that may make readers wish they had paid more attention in English class. Good fun...." --Booklist
Unforced Error scintillates with witty badinage,
trenchant humor, deft plotting and amusing
characters. Bowen's command of Civil War arcana floored me, and his sly cultural commentary cuts like an 1840 heavy cavalry dragoon saber.""
-Michael Biehl
Michael Bowen, a trial lawyer practicing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is the author of numerous myseries and non-fiction works. He graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1976. While at Harvard, he served on the Board of Editors of the Harvard Law Review. Before going to Harvard, Bowen graduated summa cum laude from Rockhurst College, a small Jesuit college in Kansas City, Missouri. He received a bachelor's degree in History. Bowen lives with his wife, Sara Armbruster Bowen (also a Harvard Law School graduate), and their three younger children in Fox Point, a suburb of Milwaukee.
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- PublisherReadHowYouWant
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1459655974
- ISBN 13 9781459655973
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages292
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