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  • Written by: André Alexis
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  • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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The Hidden Keys

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Publisher's Summary

Although the Green Dolphin is a bar of ill repute, it is there that Tancred Palmieri, a thief with elegant and erudite tastes, meets Willow Azarian, an aging heroin addict. She reveals to Tancred that her very wealthy father has recently passed away, leaving each of his five children a mysterious object that provides one clue to the whereabouts of a large inheritance. Willow enlists Tancred to steal these objects from her siblings and solve the puzzle. A Japanese screen, a painting that plays music, an aquavit bottle, a framed poem, and a model of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater. Tancred is lured in to this beguiling quest, and even though Willow dies before he can begin, he presses on.

As he tracks down the treasure, however, he must enlist the help of Alexander von Wurfel, esteemed copyist, and fend off Willow's heroin dealers, a young albino named Colby and his sidekick, Sigismund 'Freud' Luxemburg, a clubfooted psychopath, both of whom are eager to get their paws on this supposed pot of gold. And he must mislead Detective Daniel Mandelshtam, his most adored friend.

Based on an interpretation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, The Hidden Keys questions what it means to be honorable and what it means to be faithful.

©2016 André Alexis (P)2016 Coach House Books

What the critics say

"This gorgeously written, funny adventure tale will keep readers up finishing it while also quietly breaking their hearts with Alexis's keen observations of people, kindness, and cruelty." ( Publishers Weekly)
"Even though the book is an old-fashioned quest yarn, Alexis's immense talent gives it an archetypal patina, glossing characters with shades of honor and subtlety that might have been missed in lesser hands." ( Kirkus Reviews)
"[An] intellectual adventure yarn...Great fun." ( The Wall Street Journal)

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love the entire series so far

I'm big for a certain amount of magical surrealism intermixed with daily moral dilemmas and stories that give us glimpses into honest human nature while remaining somehow grounded in reality rather than displacing you from it.

It's been a really long time since I've never known what to expect from a series of books. This particular book I found especially enjoyable as it plays around a mystery. hard to express why it's so enjoyable, and how each of the stories somehow linger long after their read like the best novels do.
The Author is an excellent narrator and I can listen and I suspect relisten to him for hours.

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Worth your time.

This book was a bit slow to capture me but once it did I couldn't stop listening. Alexis lends his silky smooth voice is everything, but somehow he gets out of the way and the story takes over. It is one of those stories that leads itself to a second read.

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