Death Likes It Hot, Gore Vidal
Death Likes It Hot, Gore Vidal
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Death Likes It Hot

Author: Gore Vidal, Edgar Box

Narrator: Mikael Naramore

Unabridged: 6 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/07/2020

Synopsis

In Death Likes it Hot, dashing P.R. man Peter Sargeant travels out to a posh beach community to help a wealthy socialite plan an end-of-summer party. His enjoyment of the sun, the surf, and the company of a lovely young fashion reporter is interrupted by the death of the socialite’s niece: she mysteriously drowns while swimming on a crowded beach. No one suspects murder until the police find a lethal dose of sleeping pills in her system. As Sargeant watches the police’s investigation unfold, he keeps an eye on the grieving socialite; the victim’s famous painter husband; a suspiciously cheery brother and sister; and a garrulous tabloid columnist. Now, instead of planning guest lists, wine choices, and menus, Sargeant is faced with a killer unlike he’s ever faced: highly sophisticated, devilishly clever, and just as smooth as he is.

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 David on September 16, 2024

In concluding his trilogy of Edgar Box mysteries, it wasn't really necessary for Vidal to do anything but coast. By Book #3, he had achieved a sort of winning formula that seemed almost to be writing itself. He could have wrapped things up by sort of carbon-copying what he'd just done - and the resu......more

Goodreads review by Carol on August 17, 2016

Death Like It Hot was a fun look at summer in the Hamptons in the 50s, in addition to being a decent mystery. I have to admit I liked Peter Sargeant, even if he was a bit chauvinistic. He was smart and funny and a good observer, an outsider who sees all the quirks and tensions. And the rich and comf......more

Goodreads review by Fabian on September 21, 2020

Gore Vidal only gets 5 stars from me, on principle. I only recommend this Edgar Box series to hardcore Vidal fans who have already read his most important works. It was fun to see so much of the biting Vidal wit so early in his career......more

Goodreads review by Nooilforpacifists on January 18, 2016

Not much of a "punch". Vidal's Agatha Christie imitation seemed to run out mid-novel. Fortunately, his anti-women diatribes were more muted; "fags" remained his mortal enemy. The shrinks can take it from here.......more

Goodreads review by Gustaf on September 14, 2016

An old and dated book by Gore Vidal. Fun read, great characters, droll wit, and I was fooled. I'd recommend.......more

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