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Title details for Red Cat by Peter Spiegelman - Available

Red Cat

#3 in series

by Peter Spiegelman
Elliott Gould
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Red Cat is the third riveting installment in Peter Spiegelman's thrilling series of novels, featuring the brooding New York City private investigator John March. With a troubled past and a job that attracts too much attention from the law, March has always been the black sheep of his staid merchant-banking family. Which makes the identity of his latest client all the more surprising: his smug older brother David.

  • Creators

  • Series

    John March

  • Publisher

  • Awards

  • Release date

    April 17, 2007

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • File size: 287558 KB
      • Duration: 09:59:04

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      PI John March has a troubling case on his hands. His brother admits that he's being stalked by a woman he met on an Internet sex site. When the woman's body is found, his brother and sister-in-law become prime suspects. It's too bad this worthwhile PI novel is such a weak production. Uneven sound levels will have listeners adjusting their volume controls with each new track, and lengthy pauses between tracks, even in the midst of dialogue, hinder continuity. Elliot Gould's craggy voice holds promise never fulfilled. The author's well-crafted moments of subtlety and innuendo get plowed under, characters are not well defined, and moments that should be fast paced and high energy fall flat. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from April 30, 2007
      Gould’s precise diction, which proved to be surprisingly effective in his narration of Raymond Chandler’s works, is just as satisfying in interpreting Spiegelman’s new John March novel. And why not? Spiegelman has come closer to channeling Chandler than just about any other private eye writer in recent memory. March has a mindset and honor system remarkably similar to Chandler’s Philip Marlowe. These are sleuths who use their brains along with their muscles, and Gould’s careful enunciation reflects that. Through March’s first-person narration, we walk the cold, sleet-slippery mean streets looking into the murder of a beautiful and promiscuous young woman. Gould creates an impressive lineup of characters: dumbing down his voice to become a lovesick bruiser, catching the hollow bravado of an actor in midlife crisis or adding a touch of East Coast snobbery to an assortment of quiet money types. Red Cat is a solid, stylishly written crime yarn, and Gould’s interpretation turns it into a near-classic. Simultaneous release with the Knopf hardcover (Reviews, Nov. 6).

    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 6, 2006
      At the start of Spiegelman's fine third crime novel to feature New York City PI John March (after Black Maps
      and Death's Little Helpers
      ), March's Wall Street executive brother, David, comes to March for help with a particularly nasty problem. David has been having torrid sex with a woman he met on the Internet who goes by the name of Wren, and now she's threatening to go public with their affair. David stands to lose his wife and his job unless March can find out what's going on. It turns out that Wren's not a blackmailer—she's a performance artist who videotapes men cheating on their wives, then sells the tapes to art collectors. When Wren turns up dead, David becomes the chief suspect. The melancholy March, his personal life in tatters, hovers constantly on the edge of depression, but he loves his work, and it's this passion that keeps him where readers will want him in the future: on the job. Spiegelman doesn't break new ground, but he continues to be one of today's best practitioners of neo-noir. Author tour.

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