{"id":19642,"date":"2021-07-28T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelesbianreview.com\/?p=19642"},"modified":"2023-06-14T14:19:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T12:19:44","slug":"murder-and-gold-ann-aptaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelesbianreview.com\/murder-and-gold-ann-aptaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder and Gold by Ann Aptaker: Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Murder<\/a>Murder and Gold by Ann Aptaker<\/b><\/span> is a mystery set in 1954 and features Cantor Gold, star-studded butch of the Cantor Gold Series. This book will stand alone, so if you haven\u2019t had the chance to read the rest of the series, you can start here. (I expect you\u2019ll be buying the rest of the series once you\u2019ve read this and realized what a gem the book is).<\/p>\n

Cantor Gold is a butch about town with a penchant for women to share her bed but not her heart (for those of you starting here). She dresses in hand-stitched silk suits, crisp shirts, and ties and enjoys expensive scotch and the new car she has every year. She is a criminal who obtains unobtainable art and antiquities from countries both inside and outside the US for a string of wealthy clients. Cantor manages to keep one step ahead of a variety of policemen and detectives and, at the same time, dodging in and out of the reach of several crime bosses.<\/p>\n

This episode of Cantor Gold\u2019s life begins in her beloved New York City as she leaves her apartment to start a new day. The police have cordoned off the area in front of her apartment block as the dead body of a woman is examined. Cantor knows that the police would love to arrest her and put her away for being different, and a dead body on her doorstep could give them an excuse. She needs to keep one step ahead of them, and so begins a Cantor Gold dance through a maze between friends and enemies as she tries to find out the truth.<\/p>\n

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Oh, Cantor Gold! I love the way you deal with the world, and I\u2019m so sorry that you don\u2019t have someone to share your life.<\/p>\n

Aptaker gives us a slice of life that has long since disappeared and serves it up beautifully with words and phrases that evoke times past. Her ability to paint New York in words continues to astound me as I read and re-read the descriptions soaking in those literary gems. For example, you can picture the Garment district or the inside of Oyster Charlie\u2019s saloon as if they are scenes in a film. Mmm!<\/p>\n

The story itself and the characters within it are cleverly worked with Aptakers deft style at the fore as she crafts a mystery that keeps you riveted to each page and draws you along turning pages to see what happens.<\/p>\n

Cons And Heads Up<\/b><\/h3>\n

There is nothing for me.<\/p>\n

The Conclusion<\/b><\/h3>\n

\"valdens<\/a>If you have never read an Aptaker book, you are missing something important in your life.<\/p>\n

She will make you feel the confidence of Cantor Gold, overlaying Cantor\u2019s inner thoughts and worries that seem to slide past you as you follow her path through the story. She is ingenious in her understanding of the minds and actions of the small-minded people that are trying to catch her out. Add to that, the artistry of place and people and you have it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m hoping there will be many more episodes in Cantor\u2019s life for us to join.<\/p>\n

Excerpt from <\/b><\/span>Murder and Gold by Ann Aptaker<\/b><\/h2>\n

Taking the cigar from his mouth, he gives me a toothy, tobacco-yellowed grin a month too early for Halloween, but its effect is just as spooky. \u201cWhen the call came into the precinct,\u201d he says, his phlegmy voice gurgling through his teeth, which makes that grin even creepier, \u201cI told the captain this one\u2019s mine. And you know why, Gold?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLemme guess. You recognized my address.\u201d<\/p>\n

His grin spreads wider, nastier, his eyes narrow with sour joy. \u201cAnd here you are, all spiffed up on a sunny morning, a stiff at your doorstep. I suppose you\u2019re gonna tell me you\u2019ve got nothing to do with this and you\u2019ve never laid eyes on this woman?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cListen,\u201d I say, keeping it light and easy, burying my acquaintance with the deceased behind an I\u2019ve got nothing to hide performance my showbiz neighbors would appreciate. \u201cI can\u2019t be two places at once, can I, lieutenant? I just came off the elevator, and the woman is already lying here dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Huber sticks his cigar between his teeth again, keeps it clamped while he stares at me as if I\u2019m a sewer rat he\u2019d love to drown. After a second or two of his laughably silent bullying, he pulls the cigar from his mouth. \u201cHow do I know you didn\u2019t knife her and then\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, is that how she was killed?\u201d<\/p>\n

His hard look warns me not to give him any more back talk. \u201cYeah, that\u2019s how she was killed,\u201d he says. \u201cMy gut says you did it, Gold; then you went back upstairs to wash the blood off and change your bloody clothes for another of your snappy suits.\u201d He says this like he wants to arrest me just for dressing better than he does. \u201cAnd when you heard the sirens you came back down and ambled through your lobby innocent as Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cExcept today is Tuesday,\u201d I say, \u201cand your story assumes I\u2019m stupid enough to kill someone on my own doorstep and leave her here. You hate my guts, Huber. You\u2019ve called me everything from sewer filth to perverted scum, but you\u2019ve never called me stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s been grinding his teeth all the time I\u2019ve been talking, and now that I\u2019ve stopped, he spits out his other accusation. \u201cAnd I suppose you don\u2019t know who the dame is?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I suppose you do?\u201d It\u2019s easier on my guilty soul to throw his question back at him than admit I\u2019m a cad who never even asked her name.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer name\u2019s Lorraine Quinn, age thirty, according to the driver\u2019s license we found in her handbag. With an address on the bleaker end of Bleecker Street.\u201d<\/p>\n

I know more about her now than I did when I\u2019d buried my face in her lush chestnut hair and held her body against mine while we danced at the Green Door Club. I still didn\u2019t know any of it while I luxuriated in her breasts when she was in my bed. I feel pretty crummy that she had to die for me to find all that out. But feeling crummy could show up in my eyes, come across as the wrong kind of guilt, give Huber the wrong idea. So I squelch it.<\/p>\n

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When you use the links in this review and buy within 24 hours of clicking then we get a small commission that helps us run the site and it costs you nothing extra<\/i><\/p>\n

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Series<\/b><\/h3>\n

Cantor Gold Crime series<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Criminal Gold<\/a><\/p>\n

Tarnished Gold<\/a><\/p>\n

Genuine Gold<\/a><\/p>\n

Flesh and Gold<\/a><\/p>\n

Murder and Gold<\/p>\n

Bits and Bobs<\/b><\/h3>\n

ISBN number: <\/b>9781612942056<\/p>\n

Publisher:<\/b> <\/i>Bywater Books<\/p>\n

Ann Aptaker Online<\/b><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

If you enjoyed <\/b>Murder and Gold by Ann Aptaker<\/b><\/span> then you should also look at <\/b><\/h3>\n

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