Victim Must Be Found

By Howard Engel

Benny Cooperman, Grantham’s soft-boiled private eye, finds himself mixed up in the art world. More out of water a fish can’t get. After all, Benny only heard of Picasso last year, and now he’s hot on the trail of some missing paintings by Wallace Lamb—a trail that leads him to some of Grantham’s illustrious elite who buy, trade, and sometimes steal pictures. As this private eye soon learns, art can lead to murder—Benny’s own client is found dead and the shoes peeking under the curtains at the scene of the crime belong to Benny!

Book 6 in the Benny Cooperman Mystery series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Release date: May 6, 2008
• ISBN: 9780143179740

Howard Engel

HOWARD ENGEL is the creator of the enduring and beloved detective Benny Cooperman, who, through his appearance in 12 bestselling novels, has become an internationally recognized fictional sleuth. Two of Engel’s novels have been adapted for TV movies, and his books have been translated into several languages. He is the winner of numerous awards, including the 2005 Writers’ Trust of Canada Matt Cohen Award, the 1990 Harbourfront Festival Prize for Canadian Literature and an Arthur Ellis Award for crime fiction. Howard Engel lives in Toronto.

Reviews for Victim Must Be Found

[paradiseporch · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I love this mystery series: It's set in "Grantham", a thinly veiled St. Catharines Ontario, my husband's hometown and where I worked for 20 years, lived for nearly a decade and made many life-defining decisions. St. Catharines is the closest I have to a hometown of my own. So I love the setting of the city and other areas in the Niagara region where it is located, and I love Benny Cooperman, the hapless P.I. who bumbles through it.The mysteries themselves are uneven: some are wonderful, others so-so. A victim Must Be Found is one of the "mehs". I doubt it's worth reading for anyone who doesn't care about Benny or Grantham.