| Joker Poker Contributor(s): Helms, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 1793433437 ISBN-13: 9781793433435 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.78 lbs) 278 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Pat Gallegher has been running from his life for years. A failed seminary student, retired psychologist, and disgraced college professor, he finds himself in his late forties playing jazz cornet in a New Orleans French Quarter bar.One meeting with Clancey Vincouer changes his life. She tells him the sordid story of her affair with a con man named Sammy Cain, who has disappeared. Clancey fears that Lester Vincouer, her husband, has had Cain killed. Gallegher searches for Cain, and uncovers a twisted arrangement between Lester and the New Orleans mob. When Lester Vincouer is murdered, Gallegher realizes he has been cleverly framed.The search for Sammy Cain becomes a quest for the real killer of Lester Vincouer, and everyone seems to have a motive-including the leggy, seductive redhead with whom Gallegher has fallen head-over-heels in lust. With a tenacious police detective dogging his trail, Gallegher has only days to discover who really killed Vincouer, or the next tune he plays might be his swan song-on Death Row Richard Helms' Pat Gallegher series has been nominated for the PWA Shamus Award, the ITW Thriller Award, the SMFS Derringer Award, and the MRI Macavity Award. |