The Dutch Blue Error (The Brady Coyne Mysteries #2)
Mysteries and crime stories, Suspense and thrillers, Legal stories
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
Boston lawyer Brady Coyne investigates a philatelist fatality in &“a first-rate mystery . . . a knockout climax, charged with irony&” (The Washington Post Book World). It is a small paper square with uneven edges, dark blue in color and bearing… a smudged portrait of a long-dead king. It doesn&’t look like much to Brady Coyne, but the stamp known as the Dutch Blue Error is one of a kind—a philatelic freak worth at least one million dollars. It is the prize possession of Ollie Weston, a wheelchair-bound Boston banker, and it is valuable enough that for its sake, several good men will die. A fellow collector contacts Weston, claiming to have found a second copy of the Error—a claim that, if truthful, would destroy the stamp&’s value. Weston sends his attorney, kindhearted Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, to purchase the rogue stamp for two hundred fifty thousand dollars, but just before the hand-off, the collector is killed and the stamp disappears. Find the stamp and Brady will find the killer—but that will involve risking another one-of-a-kind item: his life.