One morning, prolific and bestselling crime novelist Howard Engel awoke to discover he had lost the ability to read. He had experienced a stroke that left him with the rare condition known as alexia sine agraphiahe could write, but as soon as he committed his thoughts to the page, he no longer knew what they were. Other effects of the stroke emerged over time, but none were as dramatic and devastating as this one for a man who made his living working with words.
 The Man Who Forgot How to Read is the warm, insightful and fascinating story of Engel’s fight to overcome a condition that threatened to end his career. Engel’s remarkable triumph over his afflictionhe was finally able to write again and produced another bestselling Benny Cooperman detective novel, Memory Bookwill inspire his fans and fascinate anyone interested in the mysteries of the human brain.

Man Who Forgot How To Read

Health, Fitness & Dieting

ENGEL, Howard

Psychology & Counseling

HarperCollins, Publishers

A simple babysitting assignment goes awry and Benny Cooperman, a Jewish private eye from Canada, finds himself confronted with cults, blackflies, and murder

Murder Sees The Light

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Penguin Canada

Benny Cooperman, a Canadian private detective, is convinced he has solved a businessman's mysterious weekly absences, until the subject inexplicably commits suicide

The Suicide Murders: A Benny Cooperman Mystery

Penguin??Books

OUR COPY HAS THE SAME COVER AS STOCK PHOTO SHOWN. MINOR SCUFFING, CREASING AND EDGE WEAR ON COVERS AND SPINE. PAGES CLEAN AND WITH AGE RELATED TANNING.

The Ransom Game

1986, mass market paperback reprint edition, Penguin, NY. 240 pages. A Benny Cooperman mystery.

Murder Sees the Light

When Rabbi Meltzer and the President of Grantham’s synagogue knock on Benny’s office door, they aren’t looking to sell raffle tickets. Of that much, he’s sure. They need his help in tracking down a missing lawyer who has disappeared with the life savings of half of the Jewish community. Benny knows he’ll never see a dime out of it, but what can you do? It’s summer in the city—and it’s going to be a hot one. Book 5 in the Benny Cooperman Mystery series.

A City Called July (Benny Cooperman)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Private Detective Benny Cooperman is asked by the Jewish community to look into the mysterious disappearance of a lawyer entrusted with much of the community's savings

A City Called July

Benny Cooperman, Grantham’s soft-boiled private eye, finds himself mixed up in the art world. More out of water a fish can’t get. After all, Benny only heard of Picasso last year, and now he’s hot on the trail of some missing paintings by Wallace Lamb—a trail that leads him to some of Grantham’s illustrious elite who buy, trade, and sometimes steal pictures. As this private eye soon learns, art can lead to murder—Benny’s own client is found dead and the shoes peeking under the curtains at the scene of the crime belong to Benny! Book 6 in the Benny Cooperman Mystery series.

Victim Must Be Found

Dead and Buried

Benny Cooperman is sure that toxic waste isn’t something you should spend too much time thinking about—it just isn’t good for your mental health. But when Jack Dowden’s widow appeals to Benny to investigate the death of her truck-driving husband, Canada’s favourite gumshoe finds himself up to his egg-salad-stained lapels in the deadly filth of Kinross Disposals. As he unearths clues—and PCBs—the body count begins to rise, and Benny does his best not to end up ... Dead and Buried. 
Book 7 in the Benny Cooperman Mystery series.

Dead And Buried

Benny Cooperman, the working-stiff private eye, is back, this time trying to sort out the kerfuffle surrounding the plumbing, a dead old woman, and a crooked politician. It all starts with a noisy toilet. Benny's janitor, Kogan, is too preoccupied with the death of his girlfriend, Lizzy Oldridge, an elderly woman who appears to have starved to death. Lizzy may have died hungry, but she had plenty of money, and somehow former alderman and mayoralty candidate Thurleigh Ramsden, an unsavoury character if there ever was one, has gained control of it. As Benny gets enmeshed in the case the body count increases alarmingly—but what’s happened with the plumbing?  Book 8 in the Benny Cooperman Mystery series.

There Was An Old Woman

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