Saturday, March 22, 2008

East 43rd Street

When I saw this book at first, I was interested in the title.This was because I had been visited in New York during the last Christmas so the title was familiar to me. During 10 days, I had gone to the east 43rd street very often so I wondered the contents.
Nat Marley, the main character of this story,saw a beautiful woman at McFadden's Bar, which was his favorite place at night. She looked so elegant and luxurious because she had wavy blonde hair, cold brown eyes and a diamond necklace and earling.Furthermore, she did mysterious gesture and had curiousful memo paper.Afterall, she paid a hundred dollar to bartender. Nat was so curious then followed her.At Grand Central, she disappeared. Nat waited and watched for a while but it was no good. His excitement for that evening was over.
Suprizingly, Nat saw her in his office and she became his client. She said that she was from small town and met her husband. They fell in love and got married but her husband wanted to get contract of their marriage. Some part of their marriage contract was that any gift recieved by Mrs. Angela Lake from Mr.Robert Lake above the value of $10,000 shall be returned to Mr. Robert Lake in the event of a divorce.
Nat was New York private investigater and this one was so excited to him. She gave a small suitecase to him and asked deliverling her jewerly to her husband. However, it was a trap to him. Therefore, he went to police office and he went to the police cell. The couple were crafty and they might be win. On the other hand, who was Nat? He was our main character. Finally, he won the unbalanced game and solved some problem.
Actually, I don't want to write all of the story because you can read and guess the clue and the criminal. I disappointed a little to the ending but the author was not Conan Doyle. I could not finished lately so I read it for 4 days. Reading is not easy for me in English but I did my best. There was another important character in this novel. His name was Tommy Lam. You can guess who he was and what he did.


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