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At a Fourth of July charity fundraiser, politics turns deadly
Stephen Fox may be a moron, but he may also be America’s next president. The dimwitted legislator is just smart enough to know when to smile for the camera. But two women stand in the way of his campaign: his mistress and his wife, who has never recovered from the death of their daughter, a pain she manages by devoting herself to fundraising for children with Down syndrome. During a weekend-long charity extravaganza on Long Island Sound, Fox’s candidacy goes off the rails in a spectacularly bloody fashion. Ex-FBI investigator Gregor Demarkian is the first on the scene. Fox’s entourage of political handlers may lie for a living, but Demarkian has a way of ferreting out the truth, and he will nab the killer before the last firework sounds.
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- Published on: 2013-03-05
- Released on: 2013-03-05
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From Publishers Weekly
This agreeable puzzle in the Agatha Christie mold is set in the corrupt realm of modern politics. Haddam ( Precious Blood ) isolates a group of manipulative, influential characters--at least one of whom is a murderer--at a Long Island Sound estate for a seminar about a much-publicized p. 143 proposed bill to benefit children with Down's syndrome. Among the power-mongers in attendance are doltish presidential candidate Stephen Whistler Fox, who has been having strange blackouts at fundraisers; his meek wife, Janet, grieving for a deceased child with Down's; his possessive, witchy mistress, Patchen Rawls; his shifty right-hand man, Dan Chester; and a specialist in the treatment of retarded children, Dr. Kevin Debrett. Debrett is found dead in his guest room with nary a wound nor a sign of struggle, and a second victim is soon to follow. Alert ex-FBI man Gregor Demarkian examines both crimes and drops hints about the murderer(s) in their midst. Juicy gossip abounds, tension builds and all present are suitably suspect as Demarkian expertly wraps up loose ends in this entertaining, satisfying mystery.
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Review
“Juicy gossip abounds, tension builds and all present are suitably suspect . . . in this entertaining, satisfying mystery.” —Publishers Weekly “Classic mysteries are back in vogue, and Jane Haddam’s . . . Gregor Demarkian series is one of the finest.” —Romantic Times Book Reviews “[Haddam] sets her holiday scenes with colorful detail.” —The New York Times
About the Author
Jane Haddam (b. 1951) is an American author of mysteries. Born Orania Papazoglou, she worked as a college professor and magazine editor before publishing her Edgar Award–nominated first novel, Sweet, Savage Death, in 1984. This mystery introduced Patience McKenna, a sleuthing scribe who would go on to appear in four more books, including Wicked, Loving Murder (1985) and Rich, Radiant Slaughter (1988). Not a Creature Was Stirring (1990) introduced Haddam’s best-known character, former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian. The series spans more than twenty novels, many of them holiday-themed, including Murder Superior (1993), Fountain of Death (1995), and Wanting Sheila Dead (2005). Haddam’s most recent novels are Blood in the Water (2012) and Hearts of Sand (2013).
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Fireworks and poison in Oyster Bay
By Michele L. Worley
L: What hast thou been?
E: A serving-man, proud in heart and mind; that curled my hair; wore gloves in my cap; served the lust of my mistress' heart, and did the act of darkness with her; swore as many oaths as I spake words, and broke them in the sweet face of heaven.
- Lear and Edgar, _King Lear_, act III, scene iv
Gregor Demarkian retired from the FBI as one of its highest-ranking administrators: chief of Behavioral Sciences, in charge of tracking down serial killers. A working lifetime spent in Washington merely honed his near-superstitious distrust of politicians. Nevertheless, a former colleague has asked Gregor to attend Senator Stephen Fox's Independence Day weekend 'seminar' in Oyster Bay, New York. Worrying things have been happening to the senator lately - but why?
No Washington insider takes Fox seriously; his political manager Dan Chester does things while Fox concentrates on his television performance, the one providing substance and the other image. They have a symbiotic relationship - Chester knows that he lacks the right image for media celebrity, and Fox knows that Chester has the brains. Fox isn't even smart enough to cheat on his wife discreetly; he met his current mistress, Patchen Rawls, through his wife's *mother*, Victoria Harte. (Janet Fox, for her part, never recovered from the death of her only child. Her only real interest is working with Down's Syndrome kids at the Emiliani school, a charity that doesn't fit in with Chester's grand schemes - it's too real and too religious.)
As a springboard to the Presidency, Fox is proposing the Act in Aid of Exceptional Children. While providing Fox with the public image of a saintly defender of mentally disabled children, behind the scenes the Act serves as a lever to pry funds and influence out of its real beneficiaries: organizations of health care workers. Fox's friend Dr. Kevin Debrett will benefit substantially no matter what, but the Empowerment Project, via lobbyist Claire Markey, also wants to get aboard. But when the Act was announced to the press, Stephen Fox collapsed, and has been doing so at speaking engagements ever since. After a battery of medical tests, Chester asked the FBI to look into the possibility that Fox is being sabotaged - so Gregor is to attend the seminar. Gregor, in turn, asked Bennis to accompany him as cover; with her looks and background, she's just the type of campaign contributor Fox would like, and Gregor can use an intelligent friend on this.
If the attacks are real and not some weird psychological symptom, how are they being staged, and what are they intended to accomplish?
Patchen, Fox's mistress, can't think her way out of a paper bag; she thinks it's Fox's destiny to leave Janet for her, and that only Chester is blocking her. Did she stage Fox's attacks as a foolish ploy to drive Chester away? (While she alone of the suspects has no clinic connections, she plays at Wicca, complete with a pharmacopoeia of herbal preparations.) Was Patchen the last straw for Janet - or for Victoria, Janet's mother? Did Claire Markey, despite her increasing dissatisfaction with her job and clients, realize that Chester planned to write the Act to include competency exams - despite all her lobbying to the contrary, and his acceptance of her funding? Or has the wayward senator found a new playmate? Or Chester, Debrett, or Fox could be up to something complex, either with Chester as mastermind or one of the others pulling an independent boneheaded play.
Naturally, Gregor and the Oyster Bay police find themselves with a murder on their hands before the fireworks begin.
The setting - Victoria Harte's Oyster Bay mansion - helps make this book memorable, and Great Expectations, in turn, is tied to its owner. Victoria Harte is 'the Last of the Movie Stars'; she travels with an entourage of twelve, gets involved with various liberal causes but isn't expected to stop wearing fur, and has an excellent spy system. Her chief concern is Janet, and how Janet is affected by Stephen Fox's shenanigans - which are in turn dictated by Dan Chester and Kevin Debrett, Stephen's closest friends, and by his mistress of the moment, rather than by any consideration for his wife.
One of the most interesting subplots is what's going on with Bennis Hannaford, one of the major supporting characters in the series. Bennis is falling apart for the second time in her life - her mother's MS will kill her before Labor Day, and with her death, the last of Bennis' childhood home will be gone. Two of her siblings are coming up for trial - one for insider trading, the other for murdering three other members of her family - and a third sibling is in rehabilitation. She's been coping by spending too much money and throwing herself into life on Cavanaugh Street, even though she lives in Boston and is working through the proofs of her next novel. She'd rather be *anywhere* than Philadelphia.
Even though during her *first* major crisis, years ago, she was involved with Stephen Fox.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Does this senator remind you of anyone?
By Amazon Customer
Act of Darkness falls near the top of the second tier of Gregor Demarkian stories. As usual, the solution is found in the history we are given. Bennis's debutante youth and her status as a celebrity author are the perfect cover for inviting Gregor to investigate a murder before it happens. The mental chaos of celebrity and politics breaks the mirror of the characters' thoughts into a jumbled mosaic that masks the real story (and reflects the author's personal views, if her website is any indication). The principle corpse-to-be is Senator Stephen Whistler Fox, a flesh-and-bones marionette on the strings of a very skilled political manager whose ambition is to be the President behind the President. Readers can decide for themselves whether Fox represents anyone in the American political scene, but please remember that this book was written several administrations ago.
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Act of Darkness
By S Riaz
This is the third in the Gregor Demarkian mysteries, following on from "Not a Creature was Stirring" and "Precious Blood". The action is mainly set at a political seminar during a Fourth of July weekend where Gregor Demarkian has been asked to investigate why Stephen Whistler Fox, Senator and possible Presidential Candidate, keeps collapsing at public events. The weekend is supposed to be about the Act in Aid of Exceptional Children, but seems to be more about scoring points on many different levels. Gregor and Bennis (who we meet in the first book Not a Creature Was Stirring (The Gregor Demarkian Holiday Mysteries)) find a house full of people who harbour grudges against each other, including Fox's mother in law, "the last of the movie stars" Victoria Harte, his wife Janet who has never recovered from the death of her baby daughter, his mistress - the unstable Patchen Rawls, lobbyist Clare Markey and Stephen Fox's closest advisors from his University days; Dan Chester his political manager and Dr Kevin Debrett. In an uncomfortable and tense atmosphere, the scene is set for murder. Gregor already has a phobia about politicians and this weekend is not about to make his feelings change.
I love the Gregor Demarkian books and, although this is not perhaps the best in the series, it is a very good story, with a great cast of characters. My favourite is the vile Patchen Rawls, who is impervious to anybody but herself and who spends her time casting spells and spying at doors. If you wish to read on, the next book in the series is Quoth the Raven (The Gregor Demarkian Holiday Mysteries). All the books are capable of being read as stand alone stories, although you might prefer to read the first in the series before this one, as it introduces Bennis Hannaford and many of the characters from Demarkian's Armenian neighbourhood, who feature in most of the novels.
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