“A page-turning romp” from the Edgar Award–winning author
featuring a nutty dentist, a killer crossbow, and Joan Crawford in
1940s Hollywood (Booklist, starred review). Mildred Minck is an
unremarkable woman—until one tragic night in June 1944 when she
becomes the first citizen of Los Angeles to be murdered by crossbow.
The prime suspect is her husband, dentist Sheldon Minck, who’s found
standing over her body with the weapon in hand, raving that only Joan
Crawford can identify the killer. It seems like a natural insanity
defense, but Sheldon wants his neighbor, private investigator Toby
Peters, to prove his innocence. The dentist is telling the truth about
one thing: Joan Crawford was there. The steely silver screen beauty
is in the middle of a comeback, about to star in a film noir based on
a James M. Cain novel, and insists Peters keep her name out of the
papers. In exchange, the glamorous eyewitness points the sleuth toward
the Survivors of the Future, a band of crackpot survivalists that the
dentist was hoping to join. Sheldon’s new friends want him sprung,
but only because they want him dead . . . With its
“irresistible” title, Edgar Award winner Stuart M. Kaminsky’s
penultimate Toby Peters mystery shines a spotlight on the legendary
screen diva as well as one of the favorite supporting characters of
the series (The Washington Post).
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ISBN
9781453247372
Publisert
2017
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Vendor
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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