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Book

The Yiddish policemen's union : a novel

Call Number

  • MYSTERY CHAB (OSH)

Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2007.

Physical Description

411 p. ; 24 cm.

Summary

This murder mystery is set in an imaginary Jewish homeland in Alaska, where Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. For sixty years they have been left alone but now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and once again the tides of history threaten to sweep them up and carry them off into the unknown. Homicide detective Meyer Landsman of the District Police has enough problems without worrying about the upcoming Reversion. His life is a shambles, his marriage is a wreck, and his career is a disaster. He and his half-Tlingit partner, Berko Shemets, can't catch a break, and someone has just committed a murder right under Landsman's nose.

Notes

Featuring Meyer Landsman and Berko Shemets.

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