num_pages: 181
description: Meet Inspector Charlie Salter, a detective with the Toronto Police Department.His reputation among members of the force at present, especially his superiors, is not the best. He's been shunted to a desk job. But when Montreal asks for help in the investigation of the murder of a Toronto college professor in a Montreal hotel room, the Superintendent asks Charlie to meet D.S. Henri O'Brien when he arrives in Toronto and offer any assistance needed. Was everyone else too busy? Whatever, Charlie is back doing what he does best.At first, it appears to be a simple case of Arthur Summers meeting the wrong woman during a convention in Montreal. It soon becomes much more complicated.
language: English
title: The Night the Gods Smiled
titlecomplete: The Night the Gods Smiled (Charlie Salter, #1)
genres: Canada, Mystery
ratings_count: 74
places: Toronto, Ontario, Montreal, Quebec (Montréal, Québec)
series: Charlie Salter
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Arthur Ellis Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: CWA New Blood Dagger, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Toronto Book Award
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited