Death Before Bedtime

Name: Death Before Bedtime
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Gore Vidal
ISBN: 9781799751137

Author: Gore Vidal, Edgar Box

Series: An Edgar Box Mystery

Narrator: Mikael Naramore

Unabridged: 6 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 01/07/2020

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

In Death Before Bedtime, dashing P.R. man Peter Sargent is invited to the home of a venerable senator to help strategize his imminent run for president. On the night before he’s to announce, though, the senator is murdered in his bed. No longer needed as a political publicist, Sargent finds himself helping the police find the killer. He deftly navigates an eccentric cast of characters, all of whom are suspects: the rebellious daughter; the sycophantic aide; the grieving widow; and the power-hungry governor with his eye on the senator’s job. Somehow, between charming the senator’s daughter and glad-handing Washington’s elite, Sargent still manages to methodically put the pieces into place and sees that politics truly is a cut-throat business.

About Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was born at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was 19 years old and serving in the army, appeared in the spring of 1946. He wrote 23 novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over 200 essays, and a memoir.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Greg

Would you like to know something I don't care about? No? Well I'll tell you anyway. I didn't care, nor care now that I'm done with the book, who killed the Senator in this book. I just didn't find myself giving a shit who was the murderer. That's not the attitude I should have had reading this book......more

Goodreads review by Bev

Death Before Bedtime (1953) is the second of three mystery novels written by Gore Vidal under the name of Edgar Box. After his novel The City and the Pillar (1948) which featured descriptions of homosexuality that caused him to be blacklisted by The New York Times, Vidal donned the Box pseudonym and......more

Goodreads review by Nooilforpacifists

By God, Gore Vidal hated women! That aside, this Agatha Christie-like short work shows him at his best--writing about the Washington he knew from his Grandfather Senator Gore and step-father Hugh Auchincloss. Vidal "wrote what he knew", and he knew it well. But one of the things he believed he knew......more

Goodreads review by David

While reading this second entry in Vidal's Edgar Box series, I was feeling a preference for Book #1. But there's a specific reason for that. Vidal (Box) had set 'Death in the Fifth Position' in the very unlikely world of ballet. Something about a murder mystery among classical dancers was inherently......more