Jacoby's First Case

Language: English

Published by Atheneum, New York, 1980

068911057X / 9780689110573

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The format is approximately 5.625 inches by 8.5 inches. [4], 188 pages. The dust jacket has some wear, soiling, and crease in front flap. A mystery introducing Quentin Jacoby. J. C. S. Smith is a pseudonym for a noted writer of nonfiction. Derived from a Kirkus review: Introducing Quentin Jacoby--a genuinely welcome new face and voice in the U.S. detective lineup, even if his first case isn't exactly gripping or particularly original. Jacoby's a retired subway cop living in Co-op City, missing dead wife Bea, bored with retirement, hanging out at Mount Vernon Raceway. And he narrates in an utterly engaging blend of second-generation Hammett/Chandler and second-generation New York/Jewish--very low-key, uneffort-fully funny, natural and lean and authentic. His case: he bumps into and is hired by a naive Westchester teenager to find a runaway girlfriend; she soon turns up dead, one in a series of young-girl victims. Among the many familiar lines of inquiry: a local doctor who's been playing daddy to kids with problems; the doc's connection with horse-racing and hoods; the doc's angry wife and son; a nurse who may be heading a teen-prostitute ring. Quentin Jacoby is a winner of a narrator-hero--as he takes buses, tolerates his Puerto Rican chum's vulgarity, observes human nature, thinks about food, and reflects a whole world of lower-middle-class N.Y. living that's overlooked in fiction. He makes this mystery dandy reading--and when he gets a case worthy of him, Jacoby could zoom fight to the top of the class. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.

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Title
Jacoby's First Case
Author
Smith, J. C. S.
Publisher
Atheneum, New York
Publication year
1980
Condition
Good
Dust jacket
Good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
068911057X
ISBN 13
9780689110573
Edition
1st Edition
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