The Dutch Blue Error, William G. Tapply
The Dutch Blue Error, William G. Tapply
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The Dutch Blue Error

Author: William G. Tapply

Narrator: William G. Tapply

Unabridged: 7 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/15/2021

Synopsis

Boston lawyer Brady Coyne investigates a philatelist fatality in "a first-rate mystery . . . a knockout climax, charged with irony" (The Washington Post Book World).

It is a small paper square with uneven edges, dark blue in color and bearing a smudged portrait of a long-dead king. It doesn't look like much to Brady Coyne, but the stamp known as the Dutch Blue Error is one of a kind—a philatelic freak worth at least one million dollars. It is the prize possession of Ollie Weston, a wheelchair-bound Boston banker, and it is valuable enough that for its sake, several good men will die.

A fellow collector contacts Weston, claiming to have found a second copy of the Error—a claim that, if truthful, would destroy the stamp's value. Weston sends his attorney, kindhearted Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, to purchase the rogue stamp for two hundred fifty thousand dollars, but just before the hand-off, the collector is killed and the stamp disappears.

Find the stamp and Brady will find the killer—but that will involve risking another one-of-a-kind item: his life.

About William G. Tapply

William G. Tapply (1940-2009) was an American author best known for writing legal thrillers. A lifelong New Englander, he graduated from Amherst and Harvard before going on to teach social studies at Lexington High School. He published his first novel, Death at Charity's Point, in 1984. A story of death and betrayal among Boston Brahmins, it introduced crusading lawyer Brady Coyne, a fishing enthusiast whom Tapply would follow through twenty-five more novels, including Follow the Sharks, The Vulgar Boatman, and the posthumously published Outwitting Trolls.

Besides writing regular columns for Field and Stream, Gray's Sporting Journal, and American Angler, Tapply wrote numerous books on fishing, hunting, and life in the outdoors. He was also the author of The Elements of Mystery Fiction, a writer's guide. He died in 2009, at his home in Hancock, New Hampshire.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on September 20, 2016

Boston attorney Brady Coyne has a small, one-man practice and a short list of very wealthy and mostly elderly clients. They generally need advice about their taxes, wills and estate planning and so Brady's life is generally pretty sedate. Occasionally he's asked to do something a bit out of the ordi......more

Goodreads review by Eric_W on December 19, 2020

Rare stamps, lawyers, collectors, and experts. I thought I might have wandering into a Lawrence Block novel. Block, as we know, is a philatelist as is Keller, one of his characters. Tapply must be, too. I've always liked Tapply's books. They are often intricately plotted and populated with interesti......more

Goodreads review by Fred on November 26, 2016

Downloaded to my kindle thanx to a review by a Goodreads friend. Interesting story and characters, fun plot twists and well plotted mystery. Brady Coyne is a divorced attorney working for the rich so he is not the type to exert himself excessively beyond his romantic entanglements. The book had some......more

Goodreads review by Dosha (Bluestocking7) on September 08, 2023

Another good one in this series. I look forward to book three.......more

Goodreads review by Nikki on October 22, 2009

The reader embarking on a project of reading a mystery set in every state of the union plus our nation's capital can expect two kinds of experiences. On the one hand, the armchair traveller will visit locations she has never seen in person, using the author's descriptions and her own imagination to......more

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