| Title: |
The Death of Blue Mountain Cat (#2 in the Jack Caleb and John Thinnes series) |
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| Author: |
Michael Allen Dymmoch (pseudonym) |
| Published by: |
St. Martin's Press, 1996 |
| ISBN: |
0-312-13962-4 [hardcover, 328 pages] |
Native American artist Blue Mountain Cat has a style
described as "Andy Warhol meets Jonathan Swift in Indian country."
When he's murdered at an exclusive showing in a posh art museum, Detective
John Thinnes has no shortage of suspects. Targets of the artist's satire
included a greedy developer, a beautiful Navajo woman, and black-market
antiquities dealers. And some of the museum's patrons were outraged by
his work. Even the victim's wife merits investigation: The death of Blue
Mountain Cat sends her into shock but doesn't keep her name off the long
list of suspects.
Thinnes drafts psychiatrist Jack Caleb to guide him through the terra
incognita of the art world, and the investigation turns up a desperate
director, a savage critic, a married mistress, and shady dealings by the
artist's partner. Adding to the tension is pressure on the detective to
close the high-profile case. Thinnes and Caleb connect several apparently
unrelated deaths as they follow leads from Wisconsin to Chicago's South
Side and the mystery's explosive conclusion.
