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The Hemingway Caper – By Eric Wright

A Joe Barley Mystery

By Eric Wright

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Joe Barley, full-time English professor and part-time private detective, is given a simple case: to track Jason Tyler and find proof of his adultery. But as he's investigating, Barley stumbles across the story of a missing manuscript containing writings by a young Ernest Hemingway.

What is Tyler's connection to the Hemingway papers? And why does Tyler's wife insist that Barley stay on the case, long after he's come up with the required evidence of Tyler's infidelity?

While these questions hang over Barley, his own life is complicated by academic politics, and challenges to his monogamous relationship with his longtime partner, Carole.

Set in Toronto, The Hemingway Caper is the second book in the Joe Barley series. The first, The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn, won the prestigious Barry Award.

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The Hemingway Caper

Eric Wright is a wonderful writer with a deft, light touch. The plot hangs together, the characters come alive. There is humour and mystery and it is a pleasure to read.

Garrett Wilson, Independently Reviewed, Summer 2004

Joe Barley is Wright's best creation since Charlie Salter and, never mind Hemingway and his papers, Wright himself is a Canadian treasure.

London Free Press
July 26, 2003

The story has Wright's usual elegance and charm, along with a delightful set of characters and a good plot."

Globe and Mail
June 7, 2003

well-told and a pleasure to read.

Quill and Quire
July 1, 2003

Light and amusing. A definite contender for the beach book pile.

Times-Colonist
June 6, 2003

The Hemingway Caper fits nicely into the mode of a master craftsman of the novelgreat reading.

Regina Leader Post
August 9, 2003

Wright, with four series on the go, is at his best in the latest in the Joe Barley seriesa plot with unusual twists, some eccentric charactgers and Joe Barley falling into one humorous situation after another.

Chronicle Herald
December 7, 2003

the author's bemused, behind-the-scenes explorations provide agreeable, if gentle, satire of campus politics.

Hamilton Spectator
July 26, 2003

Wright maintains a firm grip on the material and demonstrates an old master's ability to juggle several narrative balls at once without letting us know, till quite late in the performance which of them will eventually land with the most resounding force.

National Post
June 3, 2003