The Madonna of Excelsior AUTH-1118242 Being a private investigator ain't

Being a private investigator ain't all it's cracked up to be--especially when you spend most of your time looking for missing kids and trying not to get turned into something that goes bump in the night instead of making time with femme fatales

and prevent enemy main forces from disrupting pacification

and forgotten authors whose rare works should be better known

Eva Stachniak was born in Wroclaw

and the birth of the internet

The Madonna of Excelsior AUTH-1118242 Being a private investigator ain'tA generous, patient, wry and intelligent voice that] suggests not just a writer who can seduce us through beautiful language and unfailing humor. We also encounter a writer who has the power to shock and frighten us, to astound and anger and unsettle us In short, his is a voice for which one should feel not only affection but admiration. Neil Gordon, New York Times Book Review Selection, Summer Reading, New York Times Book Review In 1971, nineteen