{"id":3867,"date":"2024-09-19T18:22:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T18:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3867"},"modified":"2024-10-03T16:12:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T16:12:32","slug":"the-gatsby-gambit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3867","title":{"rendered":"The Gatsby Gambit"},"content":{"rendered":"

It takes a lot of guts to write a book based on one of America\u2019s most beloved novels, one that\u2019s the inspiration for several major films and is assigned reading in high schools across the country: Fitzgerald\u2019s The Great Gatsby<\/em>. But Wheeler successfully takes the original setting, Jay Gatsby\u2019s mansion in West Egg during the summer, and the same cast of characters (Gatsby, Daisy and Tom Buchanan, Nick Carraway, Jordan Baker) and shifts the narrative into a work of crime fiction. The biggest surprise is the arrival of Greta Gatsby, Jay\u2019s much younger sister. Greta is finally done with finishing schools, has moved into Jay\u2019s mansion, and is ready to take on the world. But the suicide\u2014or was it murder?\u2014of one of the leading characters, and the response of most of the residents (one more Gimlet, please?) inspires Greta to become a sleuth, if no one else will. Greta\u2019s new role is hardly acceptable for a young lady, but she just barrels through the criticism, investigating the household staff, the cops, even Gatsby\u2019s guests. A fresh and exciting take on America during the roaring \u201820s, with feminism and class tensions taking center stage, and sure to be a pleasure for readers who enjoy historical mysteries.<\/strong> It would be a delight to have Greta return in all her nosy glory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It takes a lot of guts to write a book based on one of America\u2019s most beloved novels, one that\u2019s the inspiration for several major films and is assigned reading…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[61,76,216,55],"class_list":["post-3867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-amateur-sleuth","tag-cozy","tag-mashups","tag-mystery-detective"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Gatsby-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Gatsby-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Brian Kenney","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}