East of Suez
By: Howard Engel
Series: A Benny Cooperman mystery -- 12
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780143179733; 9780143053330
Subjects: Benny Cooperman (Fictitious character); Fiction; Private investigators
Description: Beloved private eye Benny Cooperman is ready to hang up his gumshoes after an attack leaves him with lingering memory problems. But then an old chum goes missing. Hot on the trail of Jake Grange, a schoolfriend who ran a scuba diving business, Benny heads to Murinam, an exotic place with the feel and look of a former French colony. There, Benny encounters a bon-vivant priest, a pretty marine biologist, and an eccentric Englishman in search of kosher food. Of course any of these charming locals could be responsible for Jake's disappearance. But when dead bodies start to appear under the sunny tropical skies, Benny knows he must be getting somewhere. With its sure-footed plot and trademark wry humour, East of Suez proves to be one of Benny Cooperman's most memorable cases.