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Flanagan's Dolls

By: Warren Adler
Narrated by: Kevin Scollin
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Josh and Emily Flanagan return to their hometown in upper Michigan to open a funky antique shop, which they hope will provide a sane and comfortable retirement. Both have pursued successful careers in Manhattan: she as an appraiser of antiques for an auction house, and he as an insurance adjuster in the field of art and antiques.

A man seeking to purchase an antique doll for his ailing grandchild opens up a Pandora's Box of hidden family secrets and intrigue that results in bitter hostility and murder. Josh and Emily, through brilliant deduction and imaginative enterprise, discover the clues that lead to the solution that lies at the heart of this mystery. As characters they are similar in conception to the witty bantering loving couple, Nick and Nora Charles of the famed Thin Man series created by the mystery writer Dashiell Hammett.

©2010 Warren Adler (P)2016 Warren Adler

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This cute Small Town mystery is hefted with interesting characters, relationships, collectors of curiosities, and a bursts of darkness. Author Warren Adler meticulously toggled between complete and sometimes lengthy passages that were light and fun and those that hefty with staid seriousness. He didn’t so much blend genres as he proficiently excises one from the other and often keeps them totally but seamlessly separated within the same body of work. Flanagan, the flawed main character does not take himself too seriously and loves to fill the air with puns, one-liners, and all sorts tete-a-tete wordplay on idioms. He most often employs this kind of humor with this point-counterpoint with his wife, Emily, with whom he has shared “years of intimacy and companionship.” On the other hand, as a result of having had years of insurance fraud experience, Flanagan instinctively sniffs out trouble and incongruence, and unconsciously gleans from lessons learned as an investigator to solve problems into which he cannot resist throwing himself. Sometimes he does this at the expense of rocking tenuous relationships, a tendency away from which he wife tries to gently steer him. The primary riddle in this mystery is not just who committed a murder and why, but whether or not a murder was indeed committed. The story is fresh and with a rather unique locale backdrop. Despite having some elements of predictability, the narrative overall was pretty much unpredictable. I must add that the role of Caesar, Flanagan and Emily’s engaging dog, added an especially enjoyable layer of fun and interest, and helped to highlight particulars of several other characters.

I really liked the narrator. He was crisp and clear without losing a feel for a natural, flowing conversational voice. Well done!

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