The Mandeville Talent

by George V. Higgins

Joe Corey, a disillusioned Manhattan corporate lawyer, teams up with retired Defense Department bigshot Baldo Ianucci to solve a twenty-three-year-old murder--that of his wife's grandfather, who was killed with his own shotgun

Genres: Fiction, Crime

278 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1991

About the author

George Vincent Higgins was a United States author, lawyer, newspaper columnist, and college professor. He is best known for his bestselling crime novels.

Reviews

[Tim McKay]

OMG, so many in-depth side stories really annoying.

[Richard Epstein]

Do y'all still read Higgins, and if not, why not? His dialogue is as good as Elmore Leonard's and even more essential to his story-telling, and he is less inclined to romanticize his blackguards. According to the dust jacket of this one, The Times of London called him "the great classical novelist of twentieth-century America," which is something Faulkner might find surprising.

[Nolan]

Ok, this is the second worst book I've read i this calendar year, and it will likely hold it's spot. Lots and lots and lots of meaningless time-wasting dialogue, lots and lots of meaningless time-wasting monologue, a plot that went nowhere, wow! If there was a Dewey Decimal number for a Melatonin booster section, surely this book would be among that shelf's most prominent checkouts.

[Jeremy Hornik]

Great. I love Higgins. His characters yammer on and on, and then suddenly it all clicks together. Also, it’s a great story of how a cold case murder investigation might actually work. It feels almost like non-fiction.

All the Western Massachusetts references didn’t hurt either.

[Peggi Warner-Lalonde]

An interesting and entertaining read, but personally I found it a little hard to follow.

[Colin P McMahon]

A nice mystery. Great characters. Great dialogue. Wrapped up a little quick and neat. But I want to see what happened to the main characters next, so that’s a win for me.

[Kit]

a delight

[J. Ewbank]

This is an excellent book with an excellent story.

As with many novels it involves an attorney. It also involves his wife's grandfather and his murder twenty three years ago.

It is amazing that such a cold case can involve the current time, but it does.

This is a story that will grab you and take you through it to find out what happens.

J. Robert Ewbank author "John Wesley, Natural Man, and the 'Isms'"

[Craig]

Damn I miss George V. Higgins.