The Past Is Never Dead: A Gritz Goldberg Mystery
by David Schulman
Book Description
Gritz Goldberg's life is a mess. He is a
middle-aged psychiatrist with an obsessive-compulsive disorder
and a foot fetish. He's living in his hometown of Asheville,
North Carolina, where he was raised in the Jewish community,
yet grew to love barbecue and fried pork rinds. And whenever
one of his patients answers his questions with anger and
mistruths, Gritz swears he can smell Zelda Fitzgerald's
personal perfume-so what if Gritz's office was the same one
used by Zelda's therapist years ago; Zelda has been dead for
decades.
Just as Gritz begins to question his
existence, he is called to the Battery Park Hotel to convince a
possible suicide not to jump off the roof. He discovers that
the suicide threat is merely a misunderstanding. The man
involved is T Royal, who once worked for Gritz's family and
"carried Gritz and his brother round town" for years
until he suddenly disappeared.
David Schulman
Book Details
Price: $22.95
Hardcover: 272
pages
Publisher: John
F Blair
Pub; (June 2004)
ISBN: 0895872900
It turns out that T has returned to right
the wrongful conviction and execution of Mordecai Moore for the
murder of a New York co-ed in the Battery Park in 1939.
As he investigates, Gritz uncovers dirty
secrets that involve prominent people-people involved in a plot
to assassinate President Franklin Roosevelt and aid the Nazi
movement in Germany in the 1930s. As his search for the truth
proceeds, Gritz is framed for the murder of an elderly woman
who is living at the Happy Valley Assisted Living Home. Then
his quest expands into proving his own innocence as well as
Mordecai Moore's.
*Photograph by Nate Schulman