Showing results for "Disappearances" in Biographical Fiction

For three decades, until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979, Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death who performed horrific experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz, floated through South America in linen suits, keeping two steps ahead of Mossad agents, international police, and the world's journalists.

The real-life Harold Ober founded Harold Ober Associates, the oldest literary agency in the country, in 1929, and over the years the agency built an impressive client list. In J. D. West's new mystery, The Disappearance of Swenson's Secretary, we learn that Harold Ober is also an amateur detective, using the skills he's honed reading and editing manuscripts to solve baffling crimes. Along with his assistant, he delves into the question of what happened to the secretary who accompanied her boss, H. A. Swenson, a film agent from Hollywood on his visit to editors and agents in New York City.