Carole Berry (1)
Autor de Good Night, Sweet Prince
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Series
Obras de Carole Berry
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 20th Century
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, New York, USA
Miembros
Reseñas
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Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 12
- Miembros
- 352
- Popularidad
- #67,994
- Valoración
- 3.0
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 24
- Idiomas
- 1
Bonnie is initially delighted with her new job, and begins her probation with two other trainees: Helen Pilgrim, a grim young woman, "eager to grind her way up the corporate ladder" and Edwin "Fast Eddie" Fong, a hustler with, astonishingly, a Columbia MBA and a Chase Bank internship on his resume. Bonnie can't imagine what he's doing in a low-level training program with her, but soon realizes that "he had to be supporting half the bookies in Manhattan and running from the other half". Eddie has a serious gambling problem and it's not long before he and Bonnie are being chased through Chinatown and the New York subway system by Eddie's frightening "business associates".
Things go from promising to career-ending when CEO Ashley Gartner is found murdered following the office Christmas party. Eddie shamelessly courts hulking Vice President Charlotte Smoot and begins a meteoric rise within CF's upper management when Charlotte persuades / forces him to get engaged to her. VP Morton Fike, "a crazed little Napoleon", buys Mr. Gartner's share of CF and vaults himself to CEO. Bonnie accepts a job as Eddie's assistant, but has little assurance she can hang onto it as: a) she has no idea what she's doing; b) Eddie is "the biggest screw-around in the office"; and c) Eddie shows up at Bonnie's apartment one night via the fire escape, and then disappears with several Chinese gang members in hot pursuit.
Chinatown and lower Manhattan make a wonderful backdrop for this funny, clever mystery. It's the second of eight Bonnie Indermill mysteries and, for me, the best one of the series. Originally published in 1988, the office setting may seem old-fashioned now, with its not-very-sophisticated computers and secretaries still using electric typewriters, but it's very much the way I remember offices of the late 1980s.
This has been a favourite of mine for a long time, and I've re-read it often and still enjoy it every time.… (más)