Death Was the Other Woman, Linda L. Richards
Death Was the Other Woman, Linda L. Richards
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Death Was the Other Woman

Author: Linda L. Richards

Narrator: Joyce Bean

Unabridged: 7 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 01/08/2008

Synopsis

As the lawlessness of Prohibition pushes against the desperation of the Depression, there are two ways to make a living in Los Angeles: join the criminals or collar them. Kitty Pangborn has chosen the crime-fighters, becoming secretary to Dexter J. Theroux, one of the hard-drinking, tough-talking PIs who pepper the city’s stew. But after Dex takes an assignment from Rita Heppelwaite, the mistress of Harrison Dempsey, one of L.A.’s shadiest—and richest—businessmen, Kitty isn’t so sure what side of the law she’s on.Rita suspects Dempsey has been stepping out and asks Dex to tail him. It’s an easy enough task, but Dex’s morning stroll with Johnnie Walker would make it tough for him to trail his own shadow. Kitty insists she go along for the ride, keeping her boss—and hopefully her salary—safe. However, she’s about to realize that there’s something far more unpleasant than a three-timing husband at the end of this trail, and that there’s more at risk than her paycheck.Richly satisfying and stylishly gritty, Death Was the Other Woman gives a brand-new twist to the hard-boiled style, revealing that while veteran PIs like Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe spent their time slugging scotch and wooing women, it may well have been the Girl Fridays of the world who really cracked the cases.

About Linda L. Richards

Linda L. Richards is the editor and cofounder of January magazine (www.januarymagazine.com) and a regular contributor to The Rap Sheet (the rapsheet.blogspot.com). Mad Money, her first work of long fiction, was nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for best first novel. Death Was the Other Woman is her hardcover debut. She lives near Vancouver.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jo on June 23, 2019

DEATH WAS THE OTHER WOMAN is perfectly realized, smart, deep surprising and delicious hard boiled fiction. The seamlessness, depth and delicacy with which Richards realizes Depression-era L.A. is wonderful and masterful and is one of the great pleasures and triumphs of the novel, i.e. tea sweetened......more

Goodreads review by Travis on May 26, 2016

Some decent ideas and the writer seems to really be trying, but this is a mess. Lots of exposition dumps, telling us stuff and most of the time it's more than we need. Especially since it seems to clash with what we are shown. We are told Dex is charming, good-looking and a great detective, but we are......more

Goodreads review by AM on January 22, 2009

This was good enough entertainment especially on audio. Thirty's slang is always better spoken, at least for me. It looks cold and funny on the page, my brain spending too much time deciphering the word and less letting the story give the meaning. So, I'm glad I picked this one to listen to on my mp......more

Goodreads review by Linda on October 10, 2009

I really enjoyed this and the second in the (what I hope is a long) series. Sometimes, mystery series become just a little formulaic - so much so that you can pick out the culprit in the opening chapters. This throwback to the hardboiled detective genre is convincing, even while it seems a little to......more

Goodreads review by Liz on September 29, 2024

The twist of telling a detective story from the POV of his "Girl Friday" is the only attempt at originality in the book. All the other noir cliches are played annoyingly straight, and the historical inaccuracies and anachronisms were distracting. Of the cliches, the most eye-rolling was Rita Hepplew......more

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