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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenzler Publishers

ISBN-101613162812

ISBN-139781613162811

eBay Product ID (ePID)9050416221

Product Key Features

Book TitleHeaded for a Hearse

Number of Pages264 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Thrillers / Suspense, Mystery & Detective / General, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, Mystery & Detective / Traditional

Publication Year2022

GenreFiction

AuthorJonathan Latimer

Book SeriesAn American Mystery Classic Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight10 oz

Item Length0.8 in

Item Width0.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2021-921417

Dewey Edition23/eng/20221110

ReviewsJonathan Latimer is the best kept secret in noir fiction.--Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition

Series Volume Number0

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisRobert 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., 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3523.A773