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Some cases never leave you. For John Rebus, 40 years may have passed, but the death of beautiful, promiscuous Maria Turquand still preys on his mind. She was murdered in her hotel room on the night a famous rock star and his entourage were staying there, and Maria's killer has never been found. Meanwhile, the dark heart of Edinburgh remains up for grabs.

Enzi is a runaway with in-demand skills. Kaori communicates with her drawings. When Kaori is involved in a shocking crime, Enzi questions everything he has ever done.

Broadway Can Be Murder started out to be a novel based on Johnny Midnight, a TV series which everyone has long since forgotten. Except, of course, that nothing manages to be forgotten in the Internet Age. I, whose job it was to knock out 50,000 words of Johnny Midnightish prose and dialogue, had forgotten when it ran and who was in it, but Google took no time at all to remind me that the title role was played by Edmund O’Brien, and that the series ran during the first nine months of 1960. I was in New York, newly married, living at 110 West 69th Street.

La señora Jourda no sabe qué hacer con la iguana enjaulada que le confió su vecina Jérômine Gartner. La joven no ha vuelto a buscarla y no ha dado señales de vida. Cuando los policías se disponen a forzar la puerta de Jérômine, constatan que ni siquiera está cerrada. En el interior, la chica yace en un sillón. La han estrangulado. Detalles curiosos: el aire acondicionado está al máximo y el examen forense revelará la presencia de siete granos de arroz y de siete fragmentos de metal en el esófago de la víctima.