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One of the literary community's longest running and notorious mysteries is what happened to Ernest Hemingway's missing suitcase that was said to contain all of his Paris work. He left his wife Hadley in charge of packing his work into a suitcase and delivering it to him in Switzerland, yet somehow, the case disappeared never to be seen again. Over the years many Hemingway scholars have speculated on the missing case, what happened to it and what it actually contained. Harris takes a little bit from several theories and spins an incredibly entertaining romp as protagonist Henry Cooper seeks answers and write his own breakthrough novel.
Henry Cooper, better known as Coop has a problem. Though he the author of a wildly successful series, that series is written under an alias and is a romance series with a vampire as a protagonist. As much as he likes the hefty income from the series, Coop longs to write under his own name and to write something a bit more manly, and so he intends to kill his current protagonist off and end the series. His editor is dead set against this and sends him to Mexico to sort out the plot for the next in the series.
Fate however intervenes on Coop's behalf and while helping his friend Grady, the hotel owner come to the aid of a drunken patron being beaten by goons, he finds himself interjected into a plot that is far beyond anything he could have hoped to dream up. Because, as it turns out, the sot they rescued had in his possession what well may be the missing suitcase that Hadley Hemingway somehow lost between Paris and Switzerland some eighty years ago. Unfortunately, several less than stellar citizens are also hot on the trail of the suitcase.
What follows is a game of cat and mouse where the reader is carried along for a series of capers without ever quite knowing for sure who is on which side. And what a delightful caper it is! While the body count is high - I can't even begin to remember how many bodies there were and the various ways in which they met their ends - the book is laugh out-loud funny from start to finish.
At the conclusion, it would seem that the door is wide open for Coop and Grady to return. I certainly hope so!
§ Caryn St.Clair resides in University City, Missouri and is a former elementary school media specialist, President of the Parks Commission and a docent at the St.Louis Zoo.
Reviewed by Caryn St Clair, June 2016
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