Death in the Fifth Position Audiobook By Gore Vidal, Edgar Box cover art

Death in the Fifth Position

An Edgar Box Mystery

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In Death in the Fifth Position, dashing P.R. man Peter Sargent is hired by a ballet company on the eve of a major upcoming performance. Handling the press seems to be no problem, but when a rising star in the company is killed during the performance - dropped from thirty feet above the stage, crashing to her death in a perfect fifth position - Sargent has a real case on his hands. As he ingratiates himself with the players behind the scenes (especially one lovely young ballerina), he finds that this seemingly graceful ballet company is performing their most dramatic acts behind the curtain. There are sharp rivalries, sordid affairs, and shady characters. Sargent, though, has no trouble staying on point and proving that the ballerina killer is no match for his keen eye and raffish charm.

©1952, 2011 Gore Vidal (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Thriller & Suspense Mystery Suspense Private Investigators Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Urban

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I read the Edgar Box mysteries many years ago. Listening to them now I find they have not held up very well. Gore Vidal is no Agatha Christie. This is the first of three and the weakest. The reader is pretty good, but the story is lacking in my view.

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