Goodey's Last Stand - Couverture rigide

Alverson, Charles

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0241894875 ISBN 13 : 9780241894873

Editeur : Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1976

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Hailed as “...the next best thing to finding a new and unsuspected Raymond Chandler phantasmagoria” (The New Yorker), this hard boiled mystery novel for fans of John D. MacDonald, Robert Parker and Elmore Leonard might be Joe Goodey’s last.

After the San Francisco PD dismisses Joe Goodey from the force and runs him out of town for shooting the mayor’s cousin, the ex-detective's career prospects look bleak. But then a local exotic dancer turns up murdered—and more importantly, her secret journal of clients goes missing. The mayor himself extends Joe Goodey the offer: save the city's esteemed politicians from public embarrassment by retrieving the dancer's black book and Joe gets his badge back.

But fail to deliver, and there are far worse fates than death for a down-and-out former cop.

Goodey's Last Stand is the first book in the Joe Goodey hard boiled murder mystery series.

Présentation de l'éditeur

A gritty hard-boiled novel in the tradition of Chandler and Spillane…

SFPD Detective Joe Goodey’s luck turned bad right around the time he shot the mayor’s cousin. It got worse when the department took his badge and ran him out of San Francisco to a flophouse motel.

But when a local go-go queen turns up murdered, her black book of names needs to be recovered discretely - lest the mayor's affairs become public. And so Joe Goodey is offered a simple deal: solve the case and Joe gets his badge back. But with few leads – and no time - can Goodey survive San Francisco’s winding streets and cutthroat characters long enough to catch the killer?

Hailed as “...the next best thing to finding a new and unsuspected Raymond Chandler phantasmagoria” (The New Yorker), this hard boiled mystery might just prove to be Joe Goodey’s last.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1976
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0241894875
• ISBN 13: 9780241894873
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 244
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible