Death Likes It Hot Audiobook By Gore Vidal, Edgar Box cover art

Death Likes It Hot

An Edgar Box Mystery

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Death Likes It Hot

By: Gore Vidal, Edgar Box
Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
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In Death Likes it Hot, dashing P.R. man Peter Sargeant travels out to a posh beach community to help a wealthy socialite plan an end-of-summer party. His enjoyment of the sun, the surf, and the company of a lovely young fashion reporter is interrupted by the death of the socialite’s niece: she mysteriously drowns while swimming on a crowded beach. No one suspects murder until the police find a lethal dose of sleeping pills in her system. As Sargeant watches the police’s investigation unfold, he keeps an eye on the grieving socialite; the victim’s famous painter husband; a suspiciously cheery brother and sister; and a garrulous tabloid columnist. Now, instead of planning guest lists, wine choices, and menus, Sargeant is faced with a killer unlike he’s ever faced: highly sophisticated, devilishly clever, and just as smooth as he is.

©1954, 2011 Gore Vidal (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved Mystery Fiction
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I loved that Gore Vidal (apparently)had no concern about verbal “morality” critics

How very much the language would have suffered had he!

Great story, tasty character development

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Read all three worth it but glad to see Gore went on to better.

Although he could be of use to a real detective

Jay Jay

Gore is smarter than Edgar

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