num_pages: 298
description: Walter Stackhouse's love for his wife is dead: now he wishes she was.His wish comes true when Clara's body is found lying at the bottom of a cliff. But there are uncanny similarities between her death and that of a woman called Helen Kimmel; who was, in fact, murdered by her husband.The apparent connection is not lost on Lieutenant Corby of the Newark police. The object of close scrutiny, Walter is forced into a string of blunders that claim his career and his reputation, cost him his friends - and ultimately threaten his life.
language: English
title: The Blunderer
titlecomplete: The Blunderer
characters: Lieutenant Lawrence Corby, Pete Slotnikoff, Melchior Kimmel, Jon Carr, Clara Stackhouse, Ellie Briess, Helen Kimmel, Walter Stackhouse, Betty Ireton, Bill Ireton
genres: Fiction, American, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Mystery Thriller, Female Authors, 20th Century, Crime, Suspense
ratings_count: 2867
places: New York (State), Long Island, New York
publisher: Penguin