This blog began at about the same time as the fourth book of the series started to get written, so it seems reasonable to introduce you, the readers, to the earlier books a bit more thoroughly than just via the links on the blog. Starting with Book #2, The Ambivalent Corpse, here's how it begins. There will be more inside stuff about this novel in subsequent posts. Enjoy this short visit with Roger and Suzanne on one of their early cases.
Chapter
1. The Ambivalent Corpse Appears
We found the corpse on a rocky stretch of
beach in Montevideo, about a mile east of the harbor. Pieces of the body were apportioned equally between the Graf
Spee Memorial and the Holocaust Memorial, which are side by side on a grassy
knoll overlooking the Rio de la Plata shore facing Buenos Aires to the
south. Because of her
strategic location shared between two antithetical monuments, one to the German
warship scuttled near Montevideo Harbor in 1939 and the other to the victims of
Nazi genocide in World War II, the Uruguayan press named her “The Ambivalent
Corpse” (“El Cadáver Ambivalente”).
But I’m getting ahead of myself in telling this story.
