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Steve Spears has been a professional writer for over 30 years. He is the author of one of Australia's classic plays "The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin" and has published numerous stage plays, short stories, children's storys and a collection of essays titled "In search of the Bodgie". He lived on the central coast of New South Wales where he was working on further books in the Pentangeli Papers before his untimely death. |
The Pentangeli Papers
A darkly amusing series of whodunits featuring detective to the stars, Stella Pentangeli and the enigmatic Investigator Ng.
To get more details, the dustjacket summary plus my own review, click on the titles.
| Murder At the Fortnight (2003) Read Review | Innocent Murder (2005) Read Review |
| Murder By Manuscript (2004) Read Review |
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Murder By Manuscript : All internationally renowned 'lady showbiz detective' Stella Pentangeli wants is to solve a simple literary riddle: did William Shakespeare belong to a blood-thirsty seventeenth-century cult which resurrected dead people? All enigmatic and brilliant Investigator Ng wants is to find out why a relentless monster is using Shakespeare's personal recipe to make 'resurrection soup' out of twenty-first-century citizens.
As the body count mounts, all the serial killer wants is to add Stella and Ng to the menu. |
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Innocent Murder : In Innocent Murder, Investigator Ng and Stella Pentangeli work different sides of the crime fence. Ng's case is one of triads, drugs sex slavery and murder. By comparison, Stella's case is an embarrassingly trifling showbiz affair - she must discovery who is stealing plotlines from the hugely successful soap The Young and the Naked and selling them to a rival channel.
The cases collide savagely when Stella is tortured by triad members seeking revenge on Ng. Ng tracks down the torturers and kills them in cold blood. Stella, in turn, cannot live with the fact she has the blood of two men on her hands and is the cause of Ng's turning away from the law. |
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