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Black and White and Dead All Over
John Darnton
Knopf
August 2008
On Sale: July 29, 2008
368 pages
ISBN: 0307267520
EAN: 9780307267528
Hardcover
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A keenly intelligent, delightfully mordant novel that
blends fact and fiction with the same deft hand that was at
work in John Darnton’s best-selling Neanderthal. Bad news is brewing in the inner sanctum of the New York
Globe, the city’s long-standing newspaper of note, whose
back is to the wall. Readership, advertising, and
circulation are plummeting—along with the paper’s vaunted
standards—and the cost cutters have their knives out. But
trouble of a wholly different kind begins one rainy
September morning when a powerful editor is found murdered
in the newsroom, with the spike that he’d wielded to kill
stories hammered into his chest. The problem for Priscilla
Bollingsworth, the young, ambitious female NYPD detective
assigned to the case—besides the fact that the mayor is
breathing down her neck—is that there are too many suspects
to choose from. She teams up with Jude Hurley, a clever, rebellious
reporter, and together they navigate the ink-infested
waters whose denizens include the paper’s resentful old
guard, scheming careerists, a bumbling publisher, a steely
executive editor, and a rival newspaper tycoon named Lester
Moloch. But the waters thicken considerably when more
bodies turn up, dead all over. Armed with the firsthand knowledge he has acquired through
forty years in journalism, John Darnton conjures up the
cynicism and romanticism of the profession and gives us a
cunning, pitch-perfect portrait of the declining—if not yet
murderous—newspaper industry. Black and White and Dead All
Over is a satirical mystery that entertains from first to
last.
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