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The December 2023 selection of the NYRB Classics Book Club
Private eye Eugéne Tarpon is back to sleeping in his office, waiting for a paying job to turn up. Then he gets a call from a sometime contact in the police department. He’s referring a nice old ladyâa distant relativeâto Tarpon; her daughter’s gone missing and, the copy says, there’s no finding her. There are no leads. She’s gone. But the old lady’s pigheaded. Do me a favor, he tells Tarpon. Humor her. Take her off our hands. Take her money, too. And, by the way, there’s no need to investigate the actual business at all.
Tarpon may be down and out, but he’s too much of a gentleman for that. Plus, fed an obviously fishy story, he doesn’t have it in him to let well enough alone.
Once again, Tarpon is making a very big mistake.
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