by Patrick Quentin · Diogenes · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783257228878
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«Fatal Woman» is the mystery novel by Patrick Quentin, published by Diogenes in paperback (280 pages, in German).
Broadway producer and amateur detective Peter Duluth becomes involved in a new case when his wife Iris finds the body of Nanny Ordway, a young woman with literary aspirations whom Duluth had taken in. The investigation unfolds amid the glitter of the theatre and the secrets of his circle, and will test his wits.
«Fatal Woman» belongs to the Peter Duluth Mystery series, of which it is the eighth installment, and was originally published in 1952 under the title Black Widow.
For readers of classic crime fiction and detective mysteries, with the theatrical atmosphere of Broadway as a backdrop.
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Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler, Richard Wilson Webb, Martha Mott Kelley and Mary Louise White Aswell wrote detective fiction. In some foreign countries their books have been published under the variant Quentin Patrick. Most of the stories were written by Webb and Wheeler in collaboration, or by Wheeler alone. Their most famous creation is the amateur sleuth Peter Duluth. In 1963, the story collection The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow was given a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America. In 1949, the book Puzzle for Pilgrims won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière International Prize, the most prestigious award for crime and detective fiction in France.
