Book 4 "East 43rd Street"

Title: East 43rd Street
Author: Alan Battersby
Publisher (level): Cambridge University Press (5)
Summary:
Six days before the Christmas, Nat Marley, a New York private investigator, was drinking alone at the bar. There were some people who didn’t have happy home to return, like as busy preparing for the Christmas. Suddenly, a woman in an expensive dress, and with a diamond necklace, entered the bar, and she ordered martini. She paid in a hundred-dollar bill, but she left the bar without receiving her change! Marley followed her, because her behavior was strange and mysterious, so he was interested in her. Nonetheless, soon he lost her sight among so many New York buildings. The next morning, as usual he came his office. To the surprise, the woman had been waiting for him. Moreover, she made an odd request to him that he should take a black suitcase from the locker at the Grand Central and give it to her husband, though she herself had the locker’s key and met her husband daily. Why did she ask him such a thing? Marley felt a doubt with her, so he didn’t do all things as she told. He asked one of his friends to prepare a similar black suitcase and check it at the same place. In short, Marley did a sting operation. As he expected, when he was about to accept the suitcase, New York Police Department’s officers arrested him! At this time, his suspicion was soon refused, and he became certain of a plot around him. To know the whole story of this incident, he started to research a lot of things about her and her husband.
Evaluation: 5stars
This book was so interesting, in a thrilling and speedy story, it will never make readers bored. Moreover, this is not so difficult to read, although its level is 5. Perhaps, being written in American English contributes reading easily. Especially, I enjoyed the scene that the gang who was related to the woman forced Marley to do, as he wanted, but the investigator evaded it pretending an accident so well. You will be excited with his action and calm decides, so I do recommend this book to you.