The Hemingway Caper: A Joe Barley Mystery

Eric Wright

iyn, 2003 · Dundurn

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Joe Barley, full-time English professor and part-time private detective, is given a simple case: to track Jason Tyler and find proof of his adultery. But as he’s investigating, Barley stumbles across the story of a missing manuscript containing writings by a young Ernest Hemingway.

What is Tyler’s connection to the Hemingway papers? And why does Tyler’s wife insist that Barley stay on the case, long after he’s come up with the required evidence of Tyler’s infidelity?

While these questions hang over Barley, his own life is complicated by academic politics, and challenges to his monogamous relationship with his longtime partner, Carole.

Set in Toronto, The Hemingway Caper is the second book in the Joe Barley series. The first, The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn, won the prestigious Barry Award.

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Eric Wright is the author of numerous mystery novels, and has become known to readers for such characters as Charlie Salter and Lucy Trimble. In addition to winning four Arthur Ellis Awards, he has received the John Creasy Award for Best First Crime Novel published in England, and has been shortlisted for the Charles Taylor Prize for his memoir, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man. Eric lives and writes in Toronto.