The Great Gatsby Murder Case by David Finkle Book Spotlight!

“Finkle’s prose is lean and energetic, and he thankfully

 wastes little time attempting to establish a sense of

 verisimilitude.”

–Kirkus Reviews

The Great Gatsby Murder Case

Plum Bay Publishing

Publication Date

 November 15, 2024

ISBN

 979-8-9858564-5-3

Original Trade Paperback

Price

 $17.99  

Pages

 246

On a beautiful spring day in New York City, writer Daniel Freund receives two surprises. First, he finds a long sought-after 1953 edition of The Great Gatsby free for the taking on the steps of a building right down the block. The other occurs when he brings home his treasure, begins to read it, and sees the words lift off the page and start rearranging themselves. After a few moments, he realizes he is being sent a message that there has been a murder

Prompted by The Great Gatsby itself, Freund begins an investigation. Guarding the brownstone's premises is notorious nosy neighbor Ms. Estelle Belfer, who is only too happy to share the death in a locked room a few years back, deemed an open-and-shut suicide by the police. Freund eventually wrangles his way into the non-crime scene and finds there is a lot more to the story. Now, wildly curious and determined to find out what really happened (and coming home to a book becoming more noisy, insistent, and emotional), he delves deeper and deeper into the case.

In David Finkle’s mystery novel,\ 

The Great Gatsby Murder Case 

Plum Bay Publishing

 November 15, 2024

 ISBN

979-8-9858564-5-3),

Daniel Freund indeed proves to have the strangest week of his life after he acquires a curious 1953 edition of The Great Gatsby left on a neighboring stoop. A writer himself, Daniel has been collecting copies of the beloved American tale by F. Scott Fitzgerald for years.

In his new mystery, The Great Gatsby Murder Case (November 15, 2024), Daniel Freund--a reader and collector--happens upon a stack of "free" books on the steps of a brownstone. Among them, he is surprised and pleased to find a 1953 edition of The Great Gatsby, the edition missing from his collection. Although he has read the book numerous times, he sits down to enjoy it again, but instead of a pleasant reading session he is alarmed when the book starts trying to send him a message of murder.

About the author

David Finkle has covered the arts for The New York

Times, The New York Post, The Village Voice, The San

Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, The New Yorker, New

York, Time Out New York, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and

The Huffington Post. He lives in New York City.

Teeming with curiosity, adventure, magic,

 and worries about leaving the case

 unsolved, The Great Gatsby Murder Case is

 a clever and humorous piece of magical

 realism that explores the idea of a murder

 mystery in a whole new way.