Business As Usual

By (author): Michael Boughn

Toronto’s David Sanders and Claire Dumont are the Nick and Nora Charles of academia: two amateur detectives pulled into a web of deceit and violence involving murder, the illegal cross-border dumping of toxic waste, organized crime, dubious, self-serving politicians, and a mysterious, ambitious businessman whose loyalties are unknown.In Business As Usual, author Michael Boughn weaves together multiple plots, deals within deals, and double crosses galore as David and Claire find themselves pulled deeper and deeper into a funny, captivating hard-boiled mystery that might have been written by of Dashiell Hammett–if he’d only had the chance to read Betty Friedan.

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Michael Boughn

Michael Boughn was described in the Globe and Mail as ‘an obscure, veteran poet with a history of being overlooked by the mainstream.’ His last book of poetry, Cosmographia – a post-Lucretian faux micro-epic (2011), was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry.

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Toronto’s David Sanders and Claire Dumont are the Nick and Nora Charles of academia: two amateur detectives pulled into a web of deceit and violence involving murder, the illegal cross-border dumping of toxic waste, organized crime, dubious, self-serving politicians, and a mysterious, ambitious businessman whose loyalties are unknown.In Business As Usual, author Michael Boughn weaves together multiple plots, deals within deals, and double crosses galore as David and Claire find themselves pulled deeper and deeper into a funny, captivating hard-boiled mystery that might have been written by of Dashiell Hammett–if he’d only had the chance to read Betty Friedan.

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Dimensions:

360 Pages
9in * 6in * 1in
1lb

Published:

October 16, 2011

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

NeWest Press

ISBN:

9781897126912

Book Subjects:

FICTION / General

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Language:

eng

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