The Mourner

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Автор: Уэстлейк Дональд Эдвин

Серия: Паркер #4

Язык: английский

Год: 1963

Издатель: A Permabook edition, Pocket Books

Город: New York

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Аннотация

It all started when a small statuette — stolen from a fifteenth-century tomb during the French Revolution — turned up suddenly in America.
A man named Harrow, the very rich father of a very naughty daughter, offered Parker $50,000, in advance. to steal it. This presented no special problem since stealing was Parker’s business anyway, and besides, Bett Harrow, the daughter, had something of Parker’s that was very incriminating.
But the statuette was in the Washington residence of a man named Kapor, a minor official from one of the Communist nations, who not only had the stolen statuette but had also misappropriated $100,000 of his government’s funds.
It was all very confusing for a while. And then...