{"id":2629,"date":"2023-03-09T20:00:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2023-04-02T22:45:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T22:45:44","slug":"death-in-fine-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2629","title":{"rendered":"Death in Fine Condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Set in the same quirky, whatever-can-go-wrong-will world as his Vinyl Detective books, Cartmel\u2019s new series dives deep into the world of vintage-crime-fiction-paperback collectors through the, ahem, creative endeavors of Londoner Cordelia Stanmer to find the best of the best. She\u2019s starting to make her mark in the cutthroat field and knows what she\u2019s looking for as she mines \u201ccharity shops, antique shops, jumble sales, book sales, estate sales, house clearances, auctions\u2026\u201d The list goes on, as does the effort to find prime goodies without her rivals in the trade getting there first. Then she finds a shortcut: a local house has a collection\u2014dare she hope it\u2019s complete?\u2014of the Sleuth Hound paperbacks, \u201cthe finest horde of these rarities she\u2019d ever encountered.\u201d The hunt is on, with Cordelia tossing aside pesky details such as current ownership while also juggling local gangsters, her slimy brother, a crush on a glamorous but unattainable woman, curious demand for a bad self-published title that\u2019s not even vintage, her weird landlod\u2026again, the list goes on, but Cordelia is ready for it all. Her antics, which will remind readers of Elle Cosimano\u2019s madcap sleuth, Finlay Donovan, create <strong>a fun and fast-moving romp; the cherry on top is the wealth of real detail on crime-fiction collectables<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set in the same quirky, whatever-can-go-wrong-will world as his Vinyl Detective books, Cartmel\u2019s new series dives deep into the world of vintage-crime-fiction-paperback collectors through the, ahem, creative endeavors of Londoner&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[61,160,163,76,55],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-amateur-sleuth","tag-animal","tag-book-of-the-week","tag-cozy","tag-mystery-detective"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Death-in-Fine-Condition-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Death-in-Fine-Condition-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}