The Hidden Keys, Andre Alexis
The Hidden Keys, Andre Alexis
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The Hidden Keys

Author: André Alexis

Narrator: André Alexis

Unabridged: 7 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 02/09/2017


Synopsis

Although the Green Dolphin is a bar of ill repute, it is there that Tancred Palmieri, a thief with elegant and erudite tastes, meets Willow Azarian, an aging heroin addict. She reveals to Tancred that her very wealthy father has recently passed away, leaving each of his five children a mysterious object that provides one clue to the whereabouts of a large inheritance. Willow enlists Tancred to steal these objects from her siblings and solve the puzzle.A Japanese screen, a painting that plays music, an aquavit bottle, a framed poem, and a model of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater: Tancred is lured in to this beguiling quest, and even though Willow dies before he can begin, he presses on.As he tracks down the treasure, however, he must enlist the help of Alexander von Wurfel, esteemed copyist, and fend off Willow's heroin dealers, a young albino named ‘Nigger’ Colby and his sidekick, Sigismund ‘Freud’ Luxemburg, a club-footed psychopath, both of whom are eager to get their paws on this supposed pot of gold. And he must mislead Detective Daniel Mandelshtam, his most adored friend.Based on a reading of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, The Hidden Keys questions what it means to be honorable and what it means to be faithful.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica

There are probably other readers out there like me who, a little ways into The Hidden Keys will be thinking OMG IS THIS A PUZZLE BOOK???? Because we never recovered from The Westing Game, the greatest experience of our young reading lives, and puzzle books are so rare that you never expect to encoun......more

Goodreads review by Krista

Tancred was a tall and physically imposing black man, but he was also approachable. He could not sit anywhere for long without someone starting a conversation. This was, his friends liked to say, because his blue eyes were startling and his voice deep and avuncular. So, when he wanted to be alone......more

Goodreads review by Matt

Spurred on by Jael Richardson's segment on Q, I was prompted to return to my shelves and pull off a novel I'd left languishing for years. Richardson claimed that Alexis' third (fourth?) novel in his Quincunx series was the perfect way to start of the year: exciting, adventurous, and well-written. In......more