The Traces of Brillhart

By Herbert Brean

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0930330811
• ISBN13: 9780930330811
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: International Polygonics
• Length: 220 Pages

Customer Reviews

Golden Age-type Impossible Happenings tale

Synopsis (from cover of 1988 IPL Library of Crime Classics edition): Brill Brillhart, the songwriter, was known as the biggest heel to hit New York in four decades. So the report of his murder was no disappointment. But it was disconcerting when gossip columnists daily recorded his activities: escorting beautiful women to Manhattan's most glamorous nightclubs, writing songs, and otherwise behaving as a person very much alive. Crack magazine writer William Deacon set out to unravel the mystery and quickly discovered that he, Deacon, had his own problems about staying alive." Anthony Boucher review, May 1960: "Brean returns ... to the kind of crime-fantasia in which he first made his mark -- the grandly improbable and apparently impossible situation, with seeming overtones of the supernatural or at very least the paranormal...BRILLHART (is) a book that only the most incurious clod could fail to finish in one long sitting...a who-, how-, and whydunit in the classic grand manner!" Well, guess I'm a clod since I didn't finish it in one sitting. But I did finish it and enjoyed it. It's not exactly from the "golden age," but it fits the mold. Brean's "Wilders Walk Away" is more enjoyable and more clever, though.