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Benny is unexpectedly visited by Vanessa Moss, a former high school beauty, now Head of Entertainment at a TV network.…
A friend was murdered while at her house, and Vanessa fears she was the target. She asks Benny to protect her, so he travels to Toronto, where he poses as her assistant. As he tries to help his client, assist the local cops, and avoid making enemies, he discovers that taking care of Vanessa is a seductive but risky business. 2001.
A missing person search takes Cooperman to Niagara Falls where he soon finds himself involved with well-known people from the…
film world. Nominated for the 1984 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. c1982.
Detective Benny Cooperman is in a Toronto hospital after a serious blow to the head, which has affected his memory…
and given him a condition called alexia - he can still write but can't read. When Benny learns that he was found unconscious beside a dead woman, he figures he must have been close to solving a case. With his girlfriend Anna working as a field agent and two Toronto cops reluctantly helping out, Benny tries to piece together the events that led to a murder - and his own injuries. 2005.
Mystery writer Howard Engel considers the agents of state-sanctioned death - executioners. Beginning with an examination of ancient forms of…
execution, Engel concentrates on English forms of execution, particularly hanging. He discusses individual hangmen and their contributions to make their craft more humane and efficient. Engel also includes chapters on the guillotine, hanging in Canada, and capital punishment in the United States. Descriptions of violence. c1996.
From France and England to Canada and the United States, Engel explores more than twenty-five classic, infamous and still unresolved…
cases of passion and murder. As he discovers, le crime passionnel, a concept originating in France, has a special place in many legal codes around the world. Someone who has suddenly or unexpectedly been betrayed by a loved and trusted partner, even in an illicit relationship, is rarely treated as a common murderer. 2001.
Benny Cooperman is always glad to have paying work, but he does not want to touch the case presented to…
him by local crime boss Abram Wise. Until, that is, Wise expresses his concern about the safety of Benny's parents and girlfriend. So Benny investigates the two attempts on Wise's life, and the connections there might be among a retired deputy chief of police, an executed criminal, and Wise's two ex-wives and children. 1995.
Benny Cooperman is about to hang up his gumshoes after an earlier brutal attack left him with serious memory problems.…
Then an old school friend shows up and begs Benny to find her missing husband, Jack Grange. His search takes him to Murinam in the Malay Peninsula, where he meets a bon-vivant priest, an attractive marine biologist, and an eccentric Englishman looking for kosher food, while the bodies pile up and Benny doggedly uncovers layer upon layer of deceit and intrigue. 2008.
Benny Cooperman's investigation into the year-old death of a truck driver quickly turns into an investigation of Kinross Disposals and…
its illegal dumping of toxic wastes. Some strong language. Bestseller 1990.
Private eye Benny Cooperman investigates a scam involving the art collection of a deceased gallery owner. Some valuable paintings are…
missing from the estate and the list which shows to whom they were loaned has mysteriously disappeared. 1988.
Private investigator Benny Cooperman is asked by the Rabbi and the President of Grantham's synagogue to find a missing lawyer…
who has absconded the savings of half the Jewish community. Some strong language. 1986.
Despite her wealth, Lizzy Oldridge appears to have starved to death. When Benny Cooperman looks into the case, he discovers…
a link to another case that has him trailing a beautiful news anchorwoman. Some strong language. 1993.
Engaging Jewish Private Eye Benny Cooperman takes on a routine investigation that ends in suicide -- or was it murder?…
The ensuing complex web of intrigue involves a number of shady episodes at city hall as well as a few more suicides -- or murders. 1980.
Benny Cooperman's second murder case revolves around the search for a missing half-million dollar ransom. He has to deal with…
the convicted kidnappers, recently released from prison, and the wealthy Warren family, who want their money back. 1981.
One midsummer morning, crime novelist Howard Engel picked up his newspaper and discovered that he could no longer read it.…
While he slept, Engel had experienced a stroke and now suffered from a rare condition called alexia sine agraphia, meaning that he could write, but not read. As well, his memory failed him, he had trouble remembering where things went, apples and grapefruit looked the same, and names and places eluded him. Engel began learning to read again, and even wrote a Benny Cooperman mystery based on his own experiences. 2007.
Benny Cooperman, a Jewish private eye based in a small, Ontario town, suspects that the suicide of a prominent contractor,…
Chester Yates, was a murder. Benny courts trouble by digging into the dead man's affairs. When the psychiatrist who treated Yates is murdered, the detective comes close to making himself another victim of the killer. Strong language
It's autumn 1925, and a killer uncannily like England's Jack the Ripper is stalking the city streets of Paris and…
preying on young women. Michael Ward is a journalist newly arrived to the Left Bank. When he falls in with Jason Waddington, an expatriate American writer who introduces him to the cafe scene and his crowd of writers and artists, Ward soon discovers that Jack de Paris is not the only trouble afoot in the City of Light. Rumor has it that Waddington has written a damaging roman a clef about his friends, and tempers are rising even as fear of the killer grips the city. When the body of Laure Duclos is found, it seems their circle has finally been touched by Jack. But Ward has his doubts and begins to wonder whether Laure was truly Jack de Paris's latest victim, or if someone else was using the serial killer as a convenient cover to protect themselves.
It's autumn 1925, and a killer uncannily like England's Jack the Ripper is stalking the city streets of Paris and…
preying on young women. Michael Ward is a journalist newly arrived to the Left Bank. When he falls in with Jason Waddington, an expatriate American writer who introduces him to the cafe scene and his crowd of writers and artists, Ward soon discovers that Jack de Paris is not the only trouble afoot in the City of Light. Rumor has it that Waddington has written a damaging roman a clef about his friends, and tempers are rising even as fear of the killer grips the city. When the body of Laure Duclos is found, it seems their circle has finally been touched by Jack. But Ward has his doubts and begins to wonder whether Laure was truly Jack de Paris's latest victim, or if someone else was using the serial killer as a convenient cover to protect themselves.
It’s autumn 1925, and a killer uncannily like England’s Jack the Ripper is stalking the city streets of Paris and…
preying on young women. Michael Ward is a journalist newly arrived to the Left Bank. When he falls in with Jason Waddington, an expatriate American writer who introduces him to the cafe scene and his crowd of writers and artists, Ward soon discovers that Jack de Paris is not the only trouble afoot in the City of Light. Rumor has it that Waddington has written a damaging roman a clef about his friends, and tempers are rising even as fear of the killer grips the city. When the body of Laure Duclos is found, it seems their circle has finally been touched by Jack. But Ward has his doubts and begins to wonder whether Laure was truly Jack de Paris’s latest victim, or if someone else was using the serial killer as a convenient cover to protect themselves. In a feat of literature reminiscent of Caleb Carr’s The Alienist, Howard Engel blends intriguing historical fact with nail-biting fiction to produce a thriller of the highest order. Murder in Montparnasse will delight both new readers of Engel and his long-time fans.
A dead opera star, a brilliant anatomy professor with Sherlockian powers of deduction and a moody Victorian backdrop—it all adds…
up to a thrillingly entertaining historical mystery. Howard Engel is the award winning writer whose Benny Cooperman mysteries garner rave international reviews-fans stretch from Canada to Japan, England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark, and the United States. His latest, Mr. Doyle and Dr. Bell, is a brilliant departure from the Cooperman series. The year is 1879 and in Edinburgh, Alan Lambert has been tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang for the murder of a dazzling opera star and her lover. But Lambert’s brother believes he’s innocent and pleads with Dr. Bell, a celebrated professor of anatomy, to uncover the truth. Bell agrees and sets out to crack the case with his keen powers of deduction and the help of his student, Arthur Conan Doyle.