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Balshazzar's Daughter
Barbara Nadel
#UB4302
Paperback, 448 pages; 2006 (1999)
$14.95
 Members' Price: $12.71
Bas Bleu is proud to offer fourteen novels published by Felony & Mayhem, specialists in saving classic, plot-driven mysteries from extinction! Publisher Maggie Topkis has selected these titles especially for Bas Bleu's readers. She's written most of the reviews on these four pages. Look for her initials (MT) to see why she likes what she likes!
Barbara Nadel was for years a great favorite among mystery booksellers: we all imported her paperbacks from the UK, and sold them like crazy. Everyone adored them—and with good reason. Though Belshazzar's Daughter is in many ways a traditional mystery, the detail of its setting (in the back alleys of Istanbul), and the richness of its characterizations (a high-strung British ex-pat in the throes of erotic obsession; a family of once-wealthy Russian émigrés reduced to threadbare arrogance; the police inspector whose love of brandy conflicts with his Muslim upbringing; aged Jews still scarred by World War II) lift Nadel's novel well above the formulaic. It's a window onto an incredibly absorbing, exotic world.
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