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by Matthew Head (Author)
Hooper Taliaferro is living in Paris, at the height of its post-War chic, in this final mystery in the series. When a nightclub singer is murdered, the timely arrival of the redoubtable Mary Finney saves the day.
Author Biography
Matthew Head is the pseudonym of John Edwin Canaday (1907-1985), an art critic and writer. Canaday was a New York Times art critic for seventeen years and authored several monographs of visual art scholarship. Late in life he wrote restaurant reviews for the Times. Under the Matthew Head pen name he wrote seven mystery novels, three of which are set in the Congo and based on his experiences traveling there as a French translator in 1943. Canaday was born in Fort Scott, KS; his series sleuth, Dr. Mary Finney, is said to be from Fort Scott as well.
