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Overview

For over a year, Philadelphia has been plagued by a serial killer dubbed the Plate Glass Killer by the media. But finally, the police think they've caught a break – a man has been arrested at the site of the most recent murder, covered in the victim's blood. The man taken into custody is Henry Tyder, the scion of one of the most socially prominent families on Philadelphia's Main Line, a family that possesses the largest tracts of real estate in the city. He's also a hopeless alcoholic, frequently homeless and often estranged from his family.

Although Tyder has apparently confessed to the crime, his attorney believes him to be too disordered to be capable of actually committing the crimes and asks Gregor Demarkian, retired head of the FBI's Behavioral Sciences Unit, to look into the case. Gregor, however, has other things on his mind -- after having been away for nearly a year without a word to him, his live-in girlfriend, Bennis Hannaford, has returned to Cavanaugh Street. And everyone seems to have seen her but Gregor. While he waits for Bennis to finally appear, Gregor finds himself enmeshed in complex case of the Plate Glass Killer. Specifically, what would have drive Tyder to confess to crimes he was seemingly incapable of committing and, more importantly, if Tyder isn't the killer, then who really is behind the murders of the Plate Glass Killer.

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In the 22nd Gregor Demarkian book (after 2006's Hardscrabble Road), Haddam as usual effortlessly melds a puzzling mystery--a baffling serial murder case in Philadelphia--with the latest developments in the romance between her FBI profiler hero and his longtime lover, Bennis Hannaford. The perpetrator, named the Plate Glass Killer, targets unattractive middle-aged women, leaving their bodies in alleys, their faces mutilated by glass. The body count has reached double digits by the time Gregor (known popularly as the Armenian-American Hercule Poirot) is consulted, and he finds that the official investigation is a mess due to hostility among the senior detectives. The resolution may be a tad far-fetched, but the intelligent, thoughtful prose elevates this twisty whodunit far above most other contemporary traditional mysteries. The author also deserves plaudits for making the long and complex Gregor-Bennis relationship accessible to first-time readers. (Apr.)

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The Plate Glass Killer is terrorizing Philadelphia, and the alcoholic, homeless scion of the wealthy Tyder family is arrested after being found, covered in blood, at the latest murder scene. Gregor Demarkian (Hardscrabble Road), retired head of the FBI's Behavioral Sciences Unit, is asked to investigate Tyder's bizarre behavior and the police case, which has been compromised by a feud between the two detectives in charge. To complicate matters, Demarkian's girlfriend, Bennis Hannaford, returns unannounced (she left almost a year ago). Never easy reads, Haddam's complex mysteries offer detailed dissections of human behavior and American culture. Here, she tackles reporters' preconceived notions of the truth, homosexuality, and the politics of running a city. Few writers can compete with her command of characterization and complex storytelling, which is accomplished via multiple voices that shine with individuality. Highly recommended. Haddam lives in Litchfield County, CT.


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Gregor Demarkian joins the defense of a man who may or not be Philadelphia's Plate Glass Killer. When Henry Tyder emerges from an alley dripping with blood and stinking of alcohol and worse, everyone assumes he strangled the middle-aged woman back there, then slashed her face to bits, marking her as his 11th victim. Henry confesses, but while two warring detectives disparage each other and mangle the evidence so badly that it's inadmissible, Henry's public defender has doubts his client did it. For his part, Henry seems to use jail as a refuge from the two half-sisters bent on drying him out and restoring him to the social prominence expected of the family owning most of the city's real estate. Called in to untangle matters, Gregor Demarkian, the Armenian-American Poirot (Hardscrabble Road, 2006, etc.), must decide whether Henry is guilty, whether the fractious cops served justice and why these serial killings, unlike others, include no sexual component. Could someone else be the killer? Is more than one killer loose? Gregor manages to put things right despite the emotional upheaval he endures when Bennis Hannaford returns after a year away without a word and asks him to marry her. Haddam has great fun letting the Cavanaugh Street regulars skewer an English reporter convinced that Pennsylvania is a red state. If her plot unravels a bit at the end, the trip there is exhilarating. Agent: Donald Maass/Donald Maass Literary Agency

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312947484
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date: 4/1/2008
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 432
  • Sales rank: 533,867
  • Series: Gregor Demarkian Series , #22
  • Product dimensions: 4.20 (w) x 6.75 (h) x 1.15 (d)

Meet the Author

JANE HADDAM is the author of numerous novels, many featuring Gregor Demarkian, as has been a finalist for both the Edgar and Anthony Awards. She lives in Litchfield Country, Connecticut.

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Chapter 1

Sometimes Henry Tyder thought that the real problem would always be the blood. Bodies could be stashed under tables or cut up and put into trunks. You could take pieces off them or settle for pieces of clothing instead, in case you were worried about how you were going to smell on the bus. Evidence was nothing at all. Evidence was what you made it be. If you wanted it, you went and got it. If you wanted to get rid of it, you had only to point out that you were who and what you were: living on the street half the time; drunk to the gills half the time; out of your mind half the time. No, it was the blood that was the problem because blood went everywhere.

It was five o’clock on the evening of March 23rd, and not as cold as it should have been. A fine drizzling rain had been coming down most of the day. The streets were slick and wet and shiny under streetlamps that were just going on. Down at the end of the block, half a dozen people were huddled near the curb, hoping for taxis. This was not Henry’s ordinary neighborhood. It was not a place where he felt safe.

He checked out the people one more time and then retreated to the narrow alley between two brick buildings. They were the kind of buildings he remembered from his childhood, with stoops at the front and tall windows that looked out onto the city. It was as if the people who lived inside cared not at all about who could see them. On the alley side, though, there were no windows, except one very high up on the fifth or sixth floor. That would have been a maid’s room in the old days. Now it was probably a place where a law firm stowed the kind of files it expected nobody to ever want to see again.

The body was halfway between the two ends of the alley. It was the body of a young woman in a red cloth coat, with fingernails painted to look like American flags. Henry crouched down next to it. His mind was clear. It really was. He’d been living “at home” for weeks now—or at least he’d been living with Elizabeth and Margaret, which was as close as he came to home. He was cold and his bones ached, but he thought he understood what he was doing. The young woman must have been one of those people who liked to call attention to herself. The coat would have stood out in a crowd. The fingernails would have started conversations. Maybe that was what she had wanted. Maybe she had hoped that somebody would make a comment about her nails, some man, and they would talk, and the talk would lead to other things.

Henry got down closer, and looked into her face. Her eyes were open, staring blankly, the way they did when the person who owned them was dead. The side of her face was all cut up. The glass that had been used to do it—thin, wide jagged plates from a glass window, broken God only knew where—was lying around her as if it had fallen from the sky like snow. The glass was covered with blood, and so was the face, and so was the collar of the coat. Blood was in the puddles at the body’s sides, diluted and spread by the falling rain. Henry put his hand out and rubbed his palm across the body’s face. When he took his hand away, it was red and sticky and smelled like something that made his stomach churn.

From here to the end, it was an easy thing: it was just a question of finding a policeman and bringing him here. It would have been easier in the days before most policemen rode around in cars. He picked up one of the small plates of glass and turned it over in his hands. He put it down and picked up another. He picked up the woman’s purse and opened it. She had twenty-six dollars and change in her wallet. He took that and put it in his pockets. She wouldn’t need it anymore, and he did. If he could find some money someplace, he wouldn’t have to face his sisters until he was ready to.

He stood up and looked around. He knew how the woman had died. She’d been strangled from behind with a thin nylon cord people used to tie some kinds of packages for mailing. You found the stuff all the time in Dumpsters. He bent down again and felt around her neck. The cord was buried deeply into the high collar of her jersey turtleneck. It was folded back on itself, but not tied. The cords were never tied. He remembered that from the newspapers. He pulled at it until it came loose in his hands. Then he put it into his pocket with the change.

The drizzle was turning into something heavier. It was so very warm for March, but still cold enough for wet to be something he did not want to be. He leaned over one more time and put his hands in the blood again. He liked the feel of it under the tips of his fingers. He stood up and turned his hands over and let the rain fall on them. The blood washed to the edges, but it did not wash clean.

Henry put his hands in his pockets and started for the street. It was better to go to the street than to the back courtyards after dark. The courtyards were unused and uncared for and often without working lights. Kids hung out in them when they wanted to do drugs and make trouble. He felt the money one more time to make sure it was still there. He came out onto the sidewalk where the people were and looked around.

It was another woman in a red coat who saw him first, an older woman this time, somebody paying attention. Most people didn’t look at Henry Tyder at all.

“Oh, my God,” the woman said, backing away from him toward the stoops. She caught the back of her leg on a step and stumbled. “Oh, my God,” she said again. “Oh, my God.”

A man in a dark raincoat stopped to see if he could help her. “Is there something wrong?” he said. “Is there something I can get for you?”

Nothing succeeds like success, Henry thought. If you looked pretty much all right, everybody in the neighborhood wanted to help you.

That was when the woman started screaming.

Copyright © 2007 by Orania Papazoglou. All rights reserved.

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  • Posted February 7, 2010

    Haddam has another winner!

    If Jane Haddam could produce a new Gregor Demarkian mystery every month, it wouldn't be too much for me. I love this series. The character development is superb. I feel as though I know the Armenian - American community on Cavanaugh St. as well as I know my own family. I plan someday to read all of these storie in order from first to last. If you love mysteries and haven't tried these, I highly recommend them!

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  • Posted December 9, 2008

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    Good entry in this series

    In Philadelphia, the media calls this serial killer, the Plate Glass Killer as carves up the faces of his middle-aged female victims. His count has surpassed ten as he holds the city in fear. However, the police make an arrest as they have caught alcoholic Henry Tyder by the latest crime scene alley with blood all over him that came from the victim. He also confesses to the crimes though his blue blood family and their lawyer says he is harmless and could not murder anyone.-------------- The defense team hires retired former chief of the FBI¿s Behavioral Science Unit Gregor Demarkian to help prove their client is innocent. With assistance from his long time lover Bennis, Hannaford, Gregor ponders why Henry confessed and if his lawyers and loved ones are right about his inability to kill. If this is so then the Plate Glass Killer still roams the back alleys of the city seeking prey. As he develops a profile of the killer over the jealous objections of the lead PPD detectives, Gregor concludes that the predator remains loose with middle age women at risk.---------------- Fans of the series will enjoy the latest Demarkian investigative thriller as the now retired civil servant takes his skills and experience into the private sector. His convoluted relationship with Bennis is handling deftly so that long time readers will appreciate their caring nurturing of one another while newcomers will understand the tender rapport between them. Though the ending is twisted more than a Philadelphia pretzel with mustard making it feel implausible even to this gullible reviewer, the audience still will enjoy the deepness on several levels of GLASS HOUSES.------------ Harriet Klausner

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