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Fletch’s Fortune
Fletch’s Fortune
Fletch’s Fortune
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Fletch’s Fortune

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Fletch, as unbridled as ever and still living the good life in Italy on his ill-gotten fortune, gets a surprising visit from two surly FBI agents. The pair offers him a deal: either he attend the American Journalism Alliance convention and work as an undercover spy for them, or be shipped back to headquarters and face jail time for tax evasion.

Reluctantly agreeing to the scheme, he catches a red-eye flight back to the States. But just as rubber hits tarmac in Virginia, news breaks on a murder at the convention. The victim—a newspaper tycoon and former employer of I. M. Fletch—was no stranger to enemies. And at a hotel full of reporters who’d all had their dealings with the tyrannical leader, everyone’s a suspect.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 4, 2019
ISBN9781538542552
Fletch’s Fortune
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Gregory Mcdonald

Edgar-winner author of the "acidly funny novels starring the subversive sleuth" known as Fletch and former Boston Globe reporter Gregory Mcdonald, 71, died of prostate cancer in 2008.

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Fletch' Fortune is MacDonald's tribute to the age-old tradition of hotel murder mystery weekends where a bunch of people at an out-of the-way hotel usually in the Catskills get together, one is murdered, and everyone has a motive and is a suspect. Throw in the CIA, a little blackmail, and a bunch of piranhas known as journalists, and you have a story. Or do you? It is filled with clever, snarky dialogue, but way too much meaningless banter. It's a snoozefest and rather boring.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    In this selection, the president of the nationwide journalist association has been murdered. Fletch is coerced into attending, and is forced to spy on attendees. Of course, Fletch gets to the truth of everything.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Fletch attends a journalists conference in rural Virginia. At first he believes he is being coerced into going by the CIA but comes to doubt that. The conference is kicked off by the murder of its president who is stabbed in the back with a scissors. The victim has many enemies among the attendees. Fletch figures out who did the deed in his usual relaxed way. The other characters add a lot of interest as well and there are references to prior stories on the series.

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