The Gatsby Gambit

A Novel

De: Claire Anderson Wheeler

Narrado por: Erin Bennett

America’s most beloved literary characters.
A compelling mystery.
The gilded opulence of the Roaring Twenties.
And a clever young woman of unusual persistence.

Be ready to re-think the world of Gatsby.

Freshly twenty-one and sporting a daring new bob, Greta Gatsby—younger sister to the infamous Jay—is finally free of her dull finishing school, and looking forward to an idyllic summer at the Gatsby mansion, the jewel of West Egg. From its breathtaking views to its eccentric denizens, Greta is eager to inhale it all—even to the predictable disapproval of Mrs Dantry, Jay’s exacting housekeeper. Indeed, nothing could disrupt the blissful time Greta has planned . . . except finding out that Jay’s cadre of dubious friends—Daisy and Tom Buchanan, along with Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker—will be summering there, too.

It’s hard to be noticed when the luminous Daisy Buchanan is in the room, and Jordan keeps rather too close tabs on handsome Nick Carraway for Greta’s liking. But by far the worst is Daisy’s boorish husband, Tom, whose explosive temper seems always balanced on a knife-edge. But soon, bad blood is the least of their problems, as a shocking event sets the Gatsby household reeling.

Death has come to West Egg, and with it, a web of scandal, betrayal, and secrets. Turning sleuth isn’t how Greta meant to spend her summer—but what choice does she have, when everyone else seems intent on living in a world of make-believe?

Deftly subverting romantic notions about money, power, and freedom that still stand today, The Gatsby Gambit is a sparkling homage to, and reinvention of, a world American readers have lionized for generations.

©2025 Claire Anderson Wheeler (P)2025 Penguin Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

“It takes more than a little verve to write a story based on the iconic characters created by F. Scott Fitzgerald in perhaps the twentieth century’s most famous American novel, but Claire Anderson-Wheeler has done just that with The Gatsby Gambit. And, say, old sport, it’s delightful.”
—Associated Press

“To celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of The Great Gatsby by shooting Tom Buchanan dead strikes me as a brilliant stroke of literary assassination . . . With her brother, still besotted with Daisy, looking like the lead suspect and unwilling to protect himself, it’s up to his little sister to find the real humanitarian . . . er, killer . . . Anderson-Wheeler examines questions of class and wealth that feel current in today’s tumultuous era.”
—The Christian Science Monitor

“A thoroughly enjoyable mystery story with all the tropes and pleasures of a golden age detective story… Well-written and pacy, inflected by the original characters and setting but otherwise unconstrained by them, The Gatsby Gambit romps along in rather happier vein than Fitzgerald might have recognised.”
—The Guardian

“A clever homage to the original novel’s criminal underpinnings. Through a combination of familiar characters in new and dramatic situations, Anderson-Wheeler tackles great themes that have preoccupied writers since Fitzgerald and the Lost Generation: money, class, status, and sex.”
—Oprah Daily