| | Edgar-Award Nominated Author, Private Detective, Fire and Arson Investigator |
Spent Matches
Someone set a fire at the Ziefield Art Museum and Wylie Nolan and Max Bramble have been brought in to investigate. It's a "locked room" mystery that couldn't possibly have occurred. But it did. A controversial exhibition of gloomy, expressionist assemblages burst into flame, and Wylie suddenly has to reconstruct one of the most puzzling fires of his career.
Pivotal to the action are beautiful art curator Georgiana Weeks, an exhibition of exquisite Pre-Raphaelite paintings, and plenty of suspects, including young, unworldly Camden Kimcannon, a likeable misfit stuck in an imaginary past.
When Wylie Nolan investigates, he calls it as he sees it, and he sees things that nobody else notices in the spent matches, debris, and ashes at the scene of a fire.
Published by: Scribner
Hardcover – July 1996
ISBN: 0-684-80107-8
