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Woman with a Blue Pencil, by Gordon McAlpine
One won’t get hard into Gordon McAlpine’s Woman with a Blue Pencil before it becomes clear that this book is not like any other murder mystery. We’ve just gotten to know Samuel Sumida and his quest to find his wife’s killer when the lights fade to black and we’re presented with a letter from a publisher’s editor to the author of Sam’s story. It turns out that just after 7 December 1941 isn’t the best time to publish a novel about a Japanese protagonist and a White antagonist. The editor, Maxine, tells Takumi that it just won’t sell. But she has some suggestions...
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this ebook from Edelweiss, in exchange for an honest review.
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