The Cooperman Variations
Language: English
Published by Penguin Books, Toronto, 2001
- First Edition
- Signed
- Softcover
- Used
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first edition, first priniting, trade paperback format, mystery featuring detective Benny Cooperman, fine copy, appears unread, signed by the author on the title page, not remaindered, not price-clipped, not ex-libris.
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- Title
- The Cooperman Variations
- Author
- Engel, Howard
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Toronto
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0140297448
- ISBN 13
- 9780140297447
- Edition
- First
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Mysteries
Alas, not just the plots and settings have changed in Howard Engel's 10th Benny Cooperman mystery. While Canada's favourite fictional detective is still his smart-alecky but unsophisticated self ("Dim Sum may be unknown in Grantham, Mr. Cooperman, but we in Toronto have had it for nearly forty years"), his talents seem washed out, if not washed up, in this nasty little mystery set in the high-tech, high-pressure world of a Toronto TV station far up the road from his native Grantham.
Robyn Gillam adds, "All the stock figures are here - the former high school love goddess who calls at the detective's office wondering if she's in the path of a killer, the small-town lawyer, the slobbish cops, and the heavies in dark glasses. What's missing are the gritty small-town ambience and naked class antagonisms that drive best hard-boiled detective fiction, including Engel's early novels. Burdened with the bland homogeneity of the contemporary city and with convoluted literary references, the tale becomes progressively less gripping. In fact Cooperman hasn't been himself since 1990's 'Dead and Buried,' when his creator first fell for the suits and the happy ending. The warning of his first sentence--"I should have seen the writing on the wall"--should have been a message to readers as well."
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