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Tuxedo Park
Laconic L.A. private investigator Mike Faraday is plunged into a maelstrom of mystery and murder when the head of a fashion empire, millionairess Mrs. Van Gimpel, hires him to protect her daughter from big-time racketeer Mark Adams. Aided by his blonde secretary, Stella, Mike finds one bizarre fact opening out into another . . .
199 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1990
About the author
Jennet Conant
20 books76 followersJennet Conant is an American non-fiction author and journalist. She has written four best selling books about World War II, three of which have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list.
Born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Asia and America, she received a BA degree in Political Theory from Bryn Mawr College in 1982, and double-majored in Philosophy at Haverford College. She completed a Master's degree in Journalism from New York City's Columbia University in 1983. She was awarded a John J. McCloy Fellowship to study politics in Germany.
Conant went on to work at Newsweek magazine for seven years, and wrote profiles for Rolling Stone, Spy magazine, and The New York Times. Additionally, she was a contributing editor for Esquire, GQ, and Vanity Fair, from which she resigned to write her first book, Tuxedo Park. Her profile of James Watson, the co-discoverer of the double-helix, was featured in The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2004.
Born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Asia and America, she received a BA degree in Political Theory from Bryn Mawr College in 1982, and double-majored in Philosophy at Haverford College. She completed a Master's degree in Journalism from New York City's Columbia University in 1983. She was awarded a John J. McCloy Fellowship to study politics in Germany.
Conant went on to work at Newsweek magazine for seven years, and wrote profiles for Rolling Stone, Spy magazine, and The New York Times. Additionally, she was a contributing editor for Esquire, GQ, and Vanity Fair, from which she resigned to write her first book, Tuxedo Park. Her profile of James Watson, the co-discoverer of the double-helix, was featured in The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2004.
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November 10, 2016
Set in the sixties in L.A., this makes wonderful light reading. The plot may be thin and the characters 2-dimensional, but the evocative descriptions of sounds from faint to strident, the smells, the tastes of food and drink, textures to the fingertips and the play of light from bright sunlight to deepest shadows are a delight.
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