01820cam a2200325 i 4500 1134471422 TxAuBib 20240201120000.0 161208s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016046954 9780544236103 hbk. 0544236106 hbk. (OCoLC)953709994 TxAuBib rda Norman, Howard A.,. My darling detective / Howard Norman. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. ©2017. 245 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Jacob Rigolet, soon to be fired from his position as assistant to a wealthy art collector, looks up from his seat at an auction to see his mother, Nora Ives Rigolet, until that day head librarian at Halifax Free Library, walk almost casually up the aisle and fling an open jar of black ink at master photographer Robert Capa's "Death on a Leipzig Balcony." Jacob's fiancee, the erotically accomplished Detective Martha Crauchet, is assigned to the interrogation. In My Darling Detective, Howard Norman delivers a fond and witty homage to noir, as Jacob's understanding of the man he has always assumed to be his father unravels against the darker truth of Emil Smith, a Halifax police officer suspected but never convicted of murdering two Jewish residents during the shocking upswing of anti semitism in 1945, the year Jacob was born. 20240201. Mothers and sons Fiction. Murder Fiction. Antisemitism Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. lcgft Norman, Howard A.., Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.