Lover ManArtie Deemer had it easy--relaxing in his easy chair and collecting paychecks from his dog's acting career. Then Billie Burke, Artie's beautiful ex-girlfriend, was murdered, and Artie was plunged into a whirlwind of drugs, blackmail, mobsters--and a growing pile of corpses. Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Mystery. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book for 1987. |
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... cops . I couldn't go back into that office . No. Out of the question . . . . Yet I had come a long way to get here - here in the women's john with my hands twitching , my glasses perched at a drunken angle . It was the surprise that had ...
... cops . I couldn't go back into that office . No. Out of the question . . . . Yet I had come a long way to get here - here in the women's john with my hands twitching , my glasses perched at a drunken angle . It was the surprise that had ...
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... cop in a white shirt with sour BO used his own set of handcuffs to lock my ankle to the bench leg , then went away , leaving me helpless . Cops dressed like civilians from all walks of life gathered around to view the prisoner . One , a ...
... cop in a white shirt with sour BO used his own set of handcuffs to lock my ankle to the bench leg , then went away , leaving me helpless . Cops dressed like civilians from all walks of life gathered around to view the prisoner . One , a ...
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... cops were eyeing me . I liked the trip to the morgue even less . Then the note came : I'm dead , darling . Get out of your chair , look in the ice tray . So I broke into her studio . I looked . And landed on a merry - go - round of ...
... cops were eyeing me . I liked the trip to the morgue even less . Then the note came : I'm dead , darling . Get out of your chair , look in the ice tray . So I broke into her studio . I looked . And landed on a merry - go - round of ...
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