"Joe's stock-in-trade is the brightly false cover stories he spins for the people he's trying to get information out of, and his skill in allowing all those folks to give themselves away, and his sense of humor about his obvious limitations. . . .Waggish comedy is the keynote in this inaugural entry in Wright's fourth series." --Kirkus Reviews, August 15, 2000

This is a lighthearted tale of a student, working her way through college as a exotic dancer and a rich businessman's mistress, who disappears and is found again by the successful detective work of a part-time English teacher-cum-security guard. A subplot deals with the attempt by a minority student to exploit the nervousness of the university administration over discrimination and equal treatment for all. A further subplot deals with the hero's romantic relationship with his partner, a lady who just wants to be left alone to read in peace.

The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn is one part crime caper, one part academic satire, and one part love story, but this sly and subtle leg-pull reads as a seamless whole. Joe Barley is Eric Wright's fourth series detective, and readers will surely demand a return engagement for this engaging new professorial sleuth.

Eric Wright is Canada's most honored mystery writer. He served as professor, chair of the English department, and Dean of Arts at Ryerson Institute of Technology in Toronto, from which he is now retired. Past president of the North American chapter of the International Crime Writers Association, he has won the highest awards from the mystery writers of Canada and England for his ten-book Inspector Salter series.

The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn
A Joe Barley Mystery
Eric Wright

ISBN 1-880284-40-5
216 pages, paperback, $12.95

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