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THE MARBLE KITE opens at the local carnival on a fall evening. Alex Rasmussen and his girlfriend are visiting the event. The body of a young woman is discovered minutes later in a field nearby. She had been murdered. As the police begin investigating, one of the carnival workers is arrested for this crime. The owner of the carnival hires Meecham, a local lawyer, to defend Troy Pepper. Meecham, in turn, asks Alex to look into the crime as his investigator. So, he takes on the case. When Alex goes out to interview the people working the carnival, he runs into a cast of characters. There is Pop Sonders, the owner of the carnival, who is being pressured into selling it to two mobsters working for a huge conglomerate; Nicole, a young woman born with fetal alcohol syndrome, but who has a lot of innocence; Moses Maxwell, a former blues musician who disappeared from the music scene, and it turns out he had his hands broken by some gangsters collecting payment for one of his band member's gambling debts. With the trial date closing in, Rasmussen starts uncovering information that someone inside the carnival has been sabotaging the operation in order to have Pop sell to Rag Tyme, a conglomerate run by Bud Hackett and a former wrestler Squisher Spritzer, both mob connected. With other pieces starting to filter in, there seems to be a crooked judge and court clerk involved in a pornography ring, and a crooked cop who might be behind all the attacks at the carnival. With all the clues and pieces falling into place, Alex faces a stand-off situation and he must meet the party at the scene of a past crime. A dramatic showdown ensues between Alex and the murderer. THE MARBLE KITE has all the right elements to make a good mystery, but yet, I felt something was missing when I finished it.
Reviewed by Steven Sill, May 2005
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