Walter Satterthwait (1946–2020)
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Værker af Walter Satterthwait
The Adventures of Col. Boone 1 eksemplar
Sea Shanties — and State Secrets 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Malice Domestic 9: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories (2000) — Bidragyder — 36 eksemplarer
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1983, Vol. 64, No. 4 (1983) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Sixth Annual Edition (1997) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1946-03-23
- Dødsdag
- 2020-02-26
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Dødsårsag
- COPD, congestive heart failure
- Bopæl
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Erhverv
- writer of mystery and historical fiction
- Agent
- Dominick Abel
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Statistikker
- Værker
- 22
- Also by
- 9
- Medlemmer
- 923
- Popularitet
- #27,803
- Vurdering
- 3.7
- Anmeldelser
- 23
- ISBN
- 127
- Sprog
- 3
- Udvalgt
- 5
Croft works for (and loves) wheelchair-bound Rita Mondragon, an intelligent, beautiful, and stubborn woman who states, "I'll leave this house when I can walk out of it." Croft feels she's making a mistake, but he's willing to accept Rita on her own terms.
The mystery in At Ease With the Dead (the title taken from a quote by Geronimo) is filled with danger, archaeology, oil prospecting, and humor. It's a "buddy movie" in which Croft often finds himself paired with the elderly Navajo, Daniel Begay. The old man has so many tricks up his sleeve that one day Croft looks at him and asks, "Are you really Batman?" This pairing provides much-needed levity in what could have been a very dark story.
Croft has a smart-alecky wit that I really appreciate. Satterthwait has developed a strong cast of characters, and he certainly knows how to construct a mystery that keeps readers guessing as well as bringing his setting to life. He also has the knack of including sentences that can make you stop and think. "Guilt is sometimes a secret sort of self-esteem" or "If you see the world as an organism, a single entity, which of course it is, then you can't help but see the human race as a kind of virus on its surface, actively engaged in killing off the host."
Story, setting, language, characters, Satterthwait's Joshua Croft is an often thought-provoking mystery series that I will certainly be returning to.… (mere)