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On the night he returns from Greece, archaeologist Paul Van Damm is found murdered in his home.
The police pronounce him the victim of a burglary, and immediately accuse the son of the Van Damm's housekeeper, Manuel Garcia.
But attorney - and self-styled sleuth - Dade Cooley thinks his old friend Paul is a late casualty of war - the Trojan War.
Dade takes on the defence case of Manuel and becomes determined to understand the truth behind the facade of a happy and short-lived marriage between Paul and the glamorous Greek actress, Sophie Galanos.
As Cooley does some archaeology of his own, he slowly unearths a modern-day Greek tragedy in which Van Damm is only the first to die.
Surrounded by a solemn chorus of suspects, Dade Cooley digs deeper into a world of classical scholarship, criminal intent, secrecy, and deceit.
And at the heart of it all, somehow responsible, is Helen of Troy herself.
A Cup of Death is a classic mystery story from a master story-teller.
"California private-investigator novel... Cooley is a robustly real invention, and it is a pleasure to watch him (and his equally but differently intelligent wife) at work and, when they get the chance, at play." The New Yorker
"There's a new master behind this MURDER MYSTERY ... and his name is Gene Thompson!" Cleveland Plain Dealer
Gene Thompson was a novelist and writer of radio and television shows. Along with A Cup of Death he was known for Lupe, about a Mexican boy involved with the occult. A native of San Francisco, he graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, after which he worked and studied in Europe for some time. Subsequently, he and his wife, also a writer, moved to Malibu with their four children and lived there for the next sixteen years. He died in his Los Angeles home of cancer in 2001.
Genre: Mystery
The police pronounce him the victim of a burglary, and immediately accuse the son of the Van Damm's housekeeper, Manuel Garcia.
But attorney - and self-styled sleuth - Dade Cooley thinks his old friend Paul is a late casualty of war - the Trojan War.
Dade takes on the defence case of Manuel and becomes determined to understand the truth behind the facade of a happy and short-lived marriage between Paul and the glamorous Greek actress, Sophie Galanos.
As Cooley does some archaeology of his own, he slowly unearths a modern-day Greek tragedy in which Van Damm is only the first to die.
Surrounded by a solemn chorus of suspects, Dade Cooley digs deeper into a world of classical scholarship, criminal intent, secrecy, and deceit.
And at the heart of it all, somehow responsible, is Helen of Troy herself.
A Cup of Death is a classic mystery story from a master story-teller.
Praise for Gene Thompson
"California private-investigator novel... Cooley is a robustly real invention, and it is a pleasure to watch him (and his equally but differently intelligent wife) at work and, when they get the chance, at play." The New Yorker
"There's a new master behind this MURDER MYSTERY ... and his name is Gene Thompson!" Cleveland Plain Dealer
Gene Thompson was a novelist and writer of radio and television shows. Along with A Cup of Death he was known for Lupe, about a Mexican boy involved with the occult. A native of San Francisco, he graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, after which he worked and studied in Europe for some time. Subsequently, he and his wife, also a writer, moved to Malibu with their four children and lived there for the next sixteen years. He died in his Los Angeles home of cancer in 2001.
Genre: Mystery
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