# The Fitzgerald Ruse

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- Authors: [Mark de Castrique](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-de-castrique)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2011-09-30

## Description

" An excellent regional mystery, full of local color and historical detail." —Library JournalFormer Chief Warrant Officer Sam Blackman lost a leg in Iraq and emerged from the V. A. hospital in Asheville, NC, as a bitter civilian without a job or a future. But when he solved a series of local murders, Sam found new meaning for his life. Now he and his partner, Nakayla Robertson, are opening a detective agency. They have high hopes that the thriving mountain region will provide a steady stream of cases. Their first client, a quirky elderly woman in a retirement community, makes a strange request. She wants Sam to right a wrong she committed more than 70 years ago. Her victim: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Her crime: stealing a manuscript. Sam's task seems simple enough: retrieve the woman's lockbox and deliver the manuscript to Fitzgerald's heirs. But nothing is simple for Sam. The lockbox is sealed with a swastika, a symbol his client insists predates the Nazis and reflects a scene from The Great Gatsby. Then a security guard is killed and the lockbox disappears. Not only has this investigation triggered a murder, but Sam's final military case has followed him from Iraq and neither he nor anyone close to him is safe....

## Editions

### The Fitzgerald Ruse

- Publisher: sourcebooks
- ISBN: 978-15-9058-804-8
- Pages: 254
- Published: 2011-09-30
- Language: en_US