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In Praise of Lies by Melo, Patrícia, 1962-;Landers, Clifford E is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>Written in the tradition of the classic American noir of Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain, In Praise of Lies is a brilliantly clever, fiendishly funny crime novel about a woman who raises poisonous snakes and the man who loves her enough to attempt murder....</p> <p>Jose Guber is in love with a deadly woman. While writing his next crime novel, he is in search of a unique murder weapon, which is how he meets Melissa, a serologist who specializes in venomous snakes. Melissa becomes rather too interested in Jose's dastardly plots—unashamedly plagiarized from the classics: Chesterton, Poe, Dostoevsky, his editor none the wiser—and she especially likes the ones where diabolical women seduce and corrupt weak men. Melissa makes it clear that she would like to adapt one of the plots to dispose of her present husband, enabling Jose and Melissa to be together. But the course of true love and homicide does not always run smoothly, certainly not when the accomplice rattlesnake gets depressed and everything that can go wrong does go hilariously haywire. With sharp wit and impressive agility, Patricia Melo leads the reader into a teasing world of deviousness. Literary puzzles and comic swip

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Author

Melo, Patrícia, 1962-;Landers, Clifford E

Publisher

New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury ; Distributed to the trade by St. Martin's Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781582340586

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction

Rating

3.42 / 5 (37 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13