Hot Freeze - Couverture souple

Sanderson, Douglas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1550654004 ISBN 13 : 9781550654004

Editeur : Vehicule Press, 2016

Synopsis

A noir period piece and a colorful representation of Montreal in the 1950s

A raw novel of sex and drugs in the years just before rock'n'roll, Hot Freeze was first published in 1954. It takes readers from the highest Westmount mansion to the lowest Montreal gambling joint and nightclub. Its hero is Mike Garfin, a man who got kicked out of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for sleeping with the wife of a suspect. Recreating himself as an "inquiry agent," Mike takes on what looks to be an easy job: shadowing a bisexual teenager of privilege who is throwing around more money than his allowance allows. But the boy disappears and soon other disappearances follow, and Garfin's world becomes a lonelier place.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Douglas Sanderson (1920-2002) was a native of Kent, England. A veteran of the RAF, after the Second World War he emigrated to Montreal, where he studied briefly at McGill. Sanderson turned to writing mystery thrillers when his first novel met with disappointing sales. Hot Freeze, his second foray into the genre, was followed by twenty others; many written under the noms de plume "Martin Brett" and "Malcolm Douglas".

Brian Busby is Ricochet Books' series editor. He is the author of A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queens UP, 2011) and editor of The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vehicule Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1550654004
• ISBN 13: 9781550654004
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 172
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: eucomply OÜ; hello@eucompliancepartner.com; ; Pärnu mnt 139b-14; Tallinn; 11317; Estonie