Secret Life Of Algernon Pendleton by Russell H. Greenan

13 in stock

203mm x 127mm x 12mm

Pages: 224

A murderously funny fugue of the macabre ... Grave matters, elegantly dispatched. GÇö The New York Times Book Review

Algernon Pendleton GÇö call him Al GÇö lives by himself in a suburban Boston house loaded with treasures collected by his Egyptologist great-grandfather. His solitary life, punctuated by occasional visits to a shop where he trades artifacts for ready cash, would be lonely if not for his confidential chats with Eulalia, a talking porcelain pitcher. When an old army buddy shows up with a suitcase full of money, Eulalia has some less-than-friendly ideas about separating their houseguest from his fortune. Meanwhile, a professor of archaeology is getting increasingly suspicious about the shops supply of rare and valuable antiquities. Thanks to Eulalias advice, Al soon finds himself trapped in a murder mystery that unfolds with ample doses of black humor.

You have to have a heart of stone not to love Algernon Pendleton, the mad-as-a-hatter murderer GǪ Curl up with him and your doom is sealed ... Greenan has fashioned an excursion in to the macabre that is in a class by itself. GÇö Saturday Review

Oddly appealing, a sort of Arsenic and Old Lace approach that really works in terms of entertainment if you have a taste for the fantastic. GÇö Publishers Weekly