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Language: English
Published by Random House, 2005
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- Title
- Swing: A Mystery
- Author
- Holmes, Rupert
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- very_good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 140006158X
- ISBN 13
- 9781400061587
While appearing with Jack Donovan's orchestra at the 1940 World's Fair in San Francisco, jazz musician Ray Sherwood becomes caught up in a seductive mystery involving the death of a mysterious Frenchwoman, who plunges to her death shortly after propositioning him, in a mystery novel accompanied by a CD featuring original music composed by the author. 35,000 first printing.
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Review
`Imaginative, smart and impressively elaborate!' -- Janet Maslin, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
`Saturated in the atmosphere of noir and swing, the story moves
jauntily [with a] stylish sense of ambience and lightness of touch' -- THE NEW YORKER
`Saturated in the atmosphere of noir and swing, the story moves
jauntily [with a] stylish sense of ambience and lightness of touch' -- THE NEW YORKER
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