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Author Michael Z. Lewin was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1942. He studied chemistry and physics at Harvard University and taught high school science for three years before becoming a full-time writer in 1969. He is the author of the Albert Samson series and the Leroy Powder series. He toon meer currently lives in Bath, England. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

Bevat de naam: Michal Lewin

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2nd Culprit: A Crime Writers' Association Annual (1993) — Editor & Contributor — 64 exemplaren
1st Culprit: A Crime Writers' Association Annual (1992) — Editor & Contributor — 58 exemplaren
The Silent Salesman (1978) 57 exemplaren
Ask the Right Question (1971) 51 exemplaren
Called By a Panther (1991) 51 exemplaren
Out of Season (1984) 49 exemplaren
Missing Woman (1981) 47 exemplaren
The Way We Die Now (1973) 45 exemplaren
3rd Culprit: An Annual of Crime Stories (1994) — Editor and Contributor — 41 exemplaren
The Enemies Within (1974) 41 exemplaren
Night Cover (1976) 37 exemplaren
Hard Line (1982) 31 exemplaren
And Baby Will Fall (1988) 27 exemplaren
Late Payments (1986) 25 exemplaren
Underdog (1993) 20 exemplaren
Family Business (1995) 17 exemplaren
Outside In (1980) 16 exemplaren
Cutting Loose (1999) 13 exemplaren
Eye Opener (2004) 12 exemplaren
Family Planning (1999) 9 exemplaren
Oh Joe (2008) 7 exemplaren
Family Way (2011) 6 exemplaren
Rover's tales (1998) 3 exemplaren
Telling Tails (1994) 3 exemplaren
ACERTAR CON LA PREGUNTA (1971) 3 exemplaren
The Next Man (1976) 2 exemplaren
Love and Death 1 exemplaar
Family Trio (2011) 1 exemplaar
Night Shift [short story] (2001) 1 exemplaar
Pay Phone [short story] (2001) 1 exemplaar
Blodets bånd (1985) 1 exemplaar
Cigarettes 1 exemplaar

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I enjoyed my time in the shoes of a homeless man (with a plan!). I felt his self-dignity, even as he struggles with the ever re-opening wounds of his past, or finding a meal in a dumpster, as he works to be clean, neat, and accepted. The actual mystery plot seemed less important that moving along with the character living within it.
 
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DDtheV | Jan 22, 2024 |
A collection of mystery stories put together by the Crime Writers Association. The best of the bunch is by Donald Westlake. The rest is a random assortment with no thread connecting them. There are also a few cartoons thrown in that have nothing to do with mysteries. Not a very good collection but a few of the stories were worth reading.
 
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RachelNF | Jan 15, 2016 |
This book, like the other books by Michael Z. Lewin I have read, is lively and amusing. It's a tonic for what ails you!
 
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PatsyMurray | May 16, 2013 |
I first found Lewin through a series of short stories, most of which involved a family detective agency in Bath England. Shortly thereafter two books were released in that series. Both of which I rated quite highly, one 4.60, the other 5 whole stars out of 5. I was somewhat reluctant to slide into other books written by him. I didn’t want be disappointed. I would have leapt on and devoured another Lunghi Family book, but no third book appeared. Maybe if Lewin had other books set in England I might have reluctantly tested the water, but the Indianapolis author’s other two series were set in Indianapolis, and both had first books that were published in the 1970s. Twenty years before the Lunghi Family series.

Finally I acquired the first book in the Albert Samson series and gave it a chance. If the Edgar Award nomination for first novel is correct I would be jumping from his last adult series to his very first book (he had one or more young adult books appear after the second Lunghi family book).

The book started off interesting enough. Albert Samson puttering around his office/home, lazily going through his day. He hadn’t had a client in a while and didn’t really expect one that day. Close to closing time a young woman, Eloise Crystal, enters and finds him resting on a pillow at his desk. They have a little humorous exchange, and it eventually boils down to the client desiring Samson to find her biological father (to which Samson replied something along the lines of “shouldn’t you find him at home in bed with your mother?). Eloise believes that the man who claims to be her father, who was married to her mother prior to Eloise’s birth, and has raised her since that birth is not in fact her biological father.

Samson is quite reluctant to take the case, and the $100 retainer but he accepts it for one day. For his young female client needs to get back home before it is noticed she skipped school. The young woman is actually only 15.

With nothing else really to do, Samson lazily wanders around trying to figure out how to find a man who might have been with Eloise’s mother 15 to 17 years ago (Eloise originally said she was 17). He digs through back issues of the newspaper and eventually gets a taste for the case.

The book is slow paced. The main character is slightly less than fully formed, though more well rounded than might be expected for a first novel. Somewhere around the half way point I thought the book was bound to end up being what I had feared. Something of a disappointment, something of a let down. Likely to be rated no higher than, oh, 3.8 or so. Oddly enough, though, I got pulled into the story and while the middle was somewhat less solid, the beginning and end were quite strong. Quite an interesting little book, recommendable. Racking my brains thinking about it, I would put it down as a 4.40 star book.
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MikeBriggs | Aug 2, 2010 |

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Werken
42
Ook door
20
Leden
760
Populariteit
#33,470
Waardering
½ 3.7
Besprekingen
5
ISBNs
138
Talen
4
Favoriet
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