The Fourth Perspective
By Robert Greer
(Frog Books, Paperback, 9781583942239, 392pp.)
Publication Date: May 6, 2008
Categories: Mystery & Detective - General
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When bail bondsman and bounty hunter CJ Floyd opens an antique store, the last thing he expects is to be fingered for murder. But that’s exactly what happens after an immigrant student tries to sell him a rare book. The book contains a hidden photograph as legendary—and valuable—as the Maltese Falcon. The seller quickly turns up dead in an alley, and CJ is the main suspect. He corrals his friends—Flora Jean Benson and his band of hardscrabble urban cowboys and comrades in arms—to help him find the killer. Before he knows it, CJ finds himself on the dark side of a historical looking glass that has him following eccentric power brokers, museum curators, art dealers and collectors, and academics down a trail of greed and corruption as they all vie for a picture they’re willing to kill for. It doesn’t help that his psychopathic nemesis, ex-Olympian Celeste Deepstream, is busy plotting CJ’s demise for causing the death of her twin brother. The Fourth Perspective is a fast-moving, full-dress whodunit based on the last great American railroad construction project and its priceless photographic history.
Robert Greer is a practicing surgical pathologist, research scientist, and professor of pathology and medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. The author of The Devil’s Backbone, Resurrecting Langston Blue, and The Mongoose Deception, he edits the High Plains Literary Review and lives in Denver.
“Greer is a literary craftsman who takes you for a good ride and The Fourth Perspective is a great, convoluted mystery, possibly Greer’s best.”
—Denver Post
“Greer layers on the complexity up to the very end, drawing deeply on Old West history and the many facets of African-American life in cowboy country to develop rich characters and plot lines.”
—Publishers Weekly
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