Published: Sep. 15, 2010
Words: 16,111 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781452315270

Short description

The crime was impossible, but it happened. The gallery was locked and under constant observation, but the valuable painting was stolen, and later the prime suspect was murdered. A private detective and a professor turned bartender team up to solve who did it and how. Can you spot and interpret the clues and solve it first? Plus an article about how the novelette came to be written.

Extended description

A party at the home of a wealthy couple to celebrate the recent acquisition of a valuable painting results in the painting's theft from a locked room that's been under constant observation, and the subsequent murder of one of the guests. A no-nonsense private detective and a college professor turned bartender team up to solve who did it and how. Can you spot and assemble the clues to solve it before they do?

Mystery fans who enjoy the "impossible crime" stories of writers like John Dickson Carr, Paul Halter, and Edward D. Hoch should find this one appealing.

Also included is the article "Writing 'The Play of Light and Shadow.'" (Read more) A party at the home of a wealthy couple to celebrate the recent acquisition of a valuable painting results in the painting's theft from a locked room that's been under constant observation, and the subsequent murder of one of the guests. A no-nonsense private detective and a college professor turned bartender team up to solve who did it and how. Can you spot and assemble the clues to solve it before they do?

Mystery fans who enjoy the "impossible crime" stories of writers like John Dickson Carr, Paul Halter, and Edward D. Hoch should find this one appealing.

Also included is the article "Writing 'The Play of Light and Shadow.'"

"Highly readable and enjoyable."--Dave Zeltserman, multi-award-winning author

See review at Xavier Lechard's At the Villa Rose blog: http://atthevillarose.blogspot.com/search?q=hats+off+to+barry

See review at Patrick Ohl's At the Scene of the Crime blog: http://at-scene-of-crime.blogspot.com/2011/07/anomaly-of-pilfered-painting.html

See review at http://kingsriverlife.com/04/20/celebrate-earth-day-with-4-e-book-mysteries-reviewsgiveaway/
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Tags

crime, suspense, murder, mystery, murder mystery, detective, whodunit, detective story, crime detective, locked room mystery, mystery detective, mystery story, suspense murder, impossible crime, howdunit, locked room

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Review by: Randy Johnson on March 09, 2012 :
THE PLAY OF LIGHT AND SHADOW is that classic locked room mystery.

A painting is stolen, the P.I. hired to guard it for the party being thrown by the rich man, and a shadowy thief who's vowed to steal all his former partner's work, an artist who's gone straight after fifteen years in prison, to keep him from becoming big in art circles all come together in the novelette.

Throw in a murder and we get a fine tale.
(reviewed the day of purchase)

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