A 1001 Midnights Review: EDITH PIÑERO GREEN – Rotten Apples.

A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review by Marcia Muller EDITH PIÑERO GREEN – Rotten Apples. Dearborn V. Pinch #1. E. P. Dutton, hardcover, 1977. Berkley, paperback, 1982. Dearborn V. Pinch is described by one of Ms. Green’s publishers as “the world’s oldest and cleverest detective.” At well over seventy, the former at least may be true. Pinch, a charming and enterprising old gentleman who still has a sharp eye for the ladies, receives a visit from old flame Antoinette Ormach, who reveals her long-standing membership in the Rotten Apple Corps. This group of eleven, founded in the Thirties, had one characteristic in common: All had committed some sort of minor crime — from poisoning a rival’s dog on the eve of a dog show to plagiarizing a poem that later won a national award. Now the remaining members of the group have begun to die in suspicious circumstances, and Antoinette is afraid she may be next. Dearborn has been known lo help out friends with delicate problems they do not wish to take to the…