Name: The Suicide Murders
ISBN: 9780312775278

Howard Engel

Benny Cooperman, a Canadian private detective, is convinced he has solved a businessman's mysterious weekly absences, until the subject inexplicably commits suicide

The Suicide Murders

Janice Hopper

I saw this book on Scribd and thought "That sounds familiar." I read it anyway. Sure enough, I'm pretty sure I read this back in the 80s when I read lots more mystery novels than I do now.

Benny Cooperman is a private detective. He meets a mysterious woman who's worried that her husband might be cheating on her. Then her husband turns up dead, apparently a suicide. Or is it??? Hijinks ensue.

This is a fairly standard mystery. Benny Cooperman is probably the best part of it. He's the kind of detective that used to be more common than now, I think. He's a bit wry and self-deprecating, living a not-very-exciting life apart from his PI work. 

The writing feels a little dated now, and not just because of the references to using dimes to make phone calls from phone booths. I still liked it well enough. I think I read other books by this author back in the 80s, but in 2017, I think I'll move on to something else.

The Suicide Murders

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