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Headed for a Hearse
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Author: Jonathan Latimer
Title: Headed for a Hearse
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 264
Release Date: 2022-02-22
Details: Just days from meeting the reaper, a convicted murderer hires Chicago's most hard-boiled PI to save his neck-before the executioner can claim it.
Robert Westland's date with the executioner is just around the corner when he finally decides to fight the murder rap sending him to the electric chair. Framed for his wife's grisly demise, Westland is in a bind, and his last hope is Bill Crane, a booze-soaked detective who's as ruthless with a quip as he is when trawling the streets for Chicago's most brutal criminal element.
Crane's got just six days to suss out the real killer-he sets his sights on a cast of oddball characters, aided by a lime squeezer, a quart of whiskey, a monkey wrench, a taxicab, a stopwatch, and a deep sea diver... but in 1930s Chicago, everyone's got a secret, and the pressure is on for Crane to separate the dangerous from the truly homicidal before it's too late. Chicago crime beat journalist-turned-novelist Jonathan Latimer blends hardboiled detective fiction with a shot of screwball comedy in the fast-moving, realistic 1935 baffler Headed for a Hearse, an exciting combination of the macabre and the humorous.
Includes discussion guide questions for use in book clubs.
EAN: 9781613162811
Package Dimensions: Height: 8 Inches, Length: 5.3 Inches, Weight: 0.62170357884 Pounds, Width: 0.8 Inches
