House of ghosts
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Lawrence Kaplan
Publisher: Winans Kuenstler Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Doylestown, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780983327646; 9780983327660; 9780982411704; 9780983327653
Subjects: Antisemitism; Reminiscing in old age; Mystery & Detective; Ex-police officers; Hard-Boiled; FICTION; General; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst00958866; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Fiction
Description: House Of Ghosts Imagine that Raymond Chandler wrote The Winds of War and you can begin to understand why House Of Ghosts is such different and compelling detective story. Detective Joe Henderson is the modern incarnation of Philip Marlowe--hard boiled, hard drinking, hard loving, delightfully cynical, offering wry observations of life in the age of Starbucks. The tale begins in the sweltering summer of 2000 when Preston Swedge, an alcoholic recluse and World War II veteran, has died in Westfield, New Jersey. At his estate sale, retired local police detective Joe Henderson discovers a 1944 diary describing a rogue attempt by a Jewish-American pilot named Paul Rothstein to drop his bombs on Auschwitz's killing complex where nearly 300,000 captives were about to be murdered. With the fortitude of a Maccabean zealot and the patriotism of an American freedom fighter Rothstein had set out to defy his commanders who had prohibited any attempt to save Jewish lives. Joe Henderson's curiosity launches him on a crusade for the truth and a shocking revelation when he tracks down the last living witness who can solve the mystery of why the raid never happened. Epic in its breadth, House Of Ghosts sweeps effortlessly from contemporary Westfield, New Jersey to the Princeton University of 1939, and on to the aerial battle above Italy and Poland in 1944. Along the way you'll meet up with notables such as Charles Lindbergh, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr., General Fulgencio Batista, and Alina Gilbert, the exotic dancer who helps to make this the hottest summer on record.
Notes: "A Joe Henderson mystery."

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Table of contents: title: ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Dedication""; ""Chapter 1 Westfield, NJ August 2000""; ""Chapter 2 Westfield, NJ August 2000""; ""Chapter 3 Westfield, NJ August 2000""; ""Chapter 4 Westfield, NJ September 2000""; ""Chapter 5 Westfield, NJ September 2000""; ""Chapter 6 Westfield, NJ September 2000""; ""Chapter 7 Westfield, NJ September 2000""; ""Chapter 8 Princeton, NJ September 1938""; ""Chapter 9 Brooklyn, NY September 1938""; ""Chapter 10 Princeton, NJ September 1938""; ""Chapter 11 New York, NY September 1938""; ""Chapter 12 Princeton, NJ October 1938""; title: ""Chapter 13 New York, NY November 1938""""Chapter 14 Princeton, NJ May 1939""; ""Chapter 15 Brooklyn, NY May 1939""; ""Chapter 16 Princeton, NJ May 1939""; ""Chapter 17 New York, NY May 1940""; ""Chapter 18 Princeton, NJ & New York, NY October 1941""; ""Chapter 19 Brooklyn, NY December 1941""; ""Chapter 20 Washington, DC October 1942""; ""Chapter 21 California, November 1942""; ""Chapter 22 New York, NY August 1943""; ""Chapter 23 Washington, DC January 1944""; ""Chapter 24 Westfield, NJ September 2000""; ""Chapter 25 Westfield, NJ October 2000""; ""Chapter 26 Princeton, NJ October 2000""; title: ""Chapter 27 Princeton, NJ October 2000""""Chapter 28 Westfield, NJ November 2000""; ""Chapter 29 Westfield, NJ November 2000""; ""Chapter 30 Westfield, NJ November 2000""; ""Chapter 31 Italy, June 1944""; ""Chapter 32 Washington, DC August 1944""; ""Chapter 33 Italy, August 1944""; ""Chapter 34 Italy, August 1944""; ""Chapter 35 Italy, August 1944""; ""Chapter 36 Italy, August 1944""; ""Chapter 37 Italy, August 1944""; ""Chapter 38 Italy, August 1944""; ""Chapter 39 Italy, August 1944""; ""Chapter 40 Princeton, NJ December 2000""; ""Chapter 41 Westfield, NJ January 2001""; title: ""Chapter 42 Westfield, NJ January 2001""""Chapter 43 Westfield, NJ March 2001""; ""Chapter 44 Brooklyn, NY July 2002""