Black and White and Dead All over

A powerful editor is found in the newsroom, stabbed to death with the very spike he would use to “kill” stories-in this mordantly funny, keenly suspenseful mystery everyone is a suspect.

Priscilla Bollingsworth is the ambitious young NYPD detective assigned to the case. Jude Hurley, a clever, rebellious reporter, is taxed with writing about the murder for the paper. Together they must navigate the ink-infested waters of the New York Globe, a place whose denizens include the paper's resentful old guard, scheming careerists, a bumbling publisher, a steely executive editor, and a rival newspaper tycoon named Lester Moloch. With colleagues like these, who can name just one suspect? Armed with forty years of firsthand knowledge in journalism, John Darnton gives us a pitch-perfect mystery that entertains all over.