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Higgins, George V. The Mandeville Talent: A Crime Novel New York Henry Holt & Company, Inc. 1991 First American Edition Hardcover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall From Publishers Weekly Higgins's ( The Friends of Eddie Coyle ) own talent is nowhere in evidence in this mind-deadening story, mainly a collection of depositions concerning a 23-year-old unsolved murder in Goshen, Mass. When the granddaughter of murder victim James Mandeville is offered a teaching post at Mount Holyoke, her husband, Joe, a young lawyer in a big Manhattan firm, grabs the chance to resign from the corporate rat race, solve the old murder case and set up private practice in the Berkshires. The local law can't help (for diverse reasons) and sends him to retired Defense Department investigator Baldad ("Baldo") Ianucci, who is bored and looking for something to do. Readers soon feel the same way as they slog through the endless, bland monologues that Joe and Baldo's interviews generate. An interesting question of legal culpability in land speculation involving an order of priests and the mob gets buried in the convoluted prose. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus Reviews A cheerful young lawyer chucks Manhattan to follow his wife to remotest Massachusetts, where she will teach and he will rattle the skeletons in her family's closet. Attorney Higgins (Victories, 1990, etc.), who lives in Massachusetts, knows all the worst about small-town politics. The action is now and not-so-long-ago, but the atmosphere is MGM's New England in the 1940's. Thoroughly modern husband and corporate-law whiz Joe Corey cheerfully hops off the fast track when Mrs. Corey answers. Price: 12.44 USD
