Author: Stephen Dobyns Year: 1993 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery
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ISBNs: 9780140171624 0140171622 |
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It's been years since Charlie Bradshaw traded in his badge and a steady paycheck for the hard-scrabble but independent life of a private eye, but his past is catching up with him - with a vengeance. A man he was responsible for convicting twenty years ago has been paroled from prison and seems to be out to get him, if the death threats Charlie has been receiving are any indication. As if that weren't enough, another of Charlie's old cases is proving that sometimes secrets refuse to stay buried. When the site of what used to be Jacko's Pool Hall is bulldozed to make way for the public library, the skeleton of a woman believed to have escaped to South America with embezzled funds literally comes to the surface. Although he's been off the force for ages, he feels morally obliged to solve the case. To top it all off, his irreplaceable, irrepressible girlfriend, Janey Burris, wants a commitment. With his trademark humor, Stephen Dobyns sets Charlie to deciphering the past while staying alive in the present amid what is truly a cast of "characters, " Saratoga-style - epitomized by his eccentric friend Victor Plotz and the ailing Maximum Tubbs. Between the excavation of the past and the soul-searching of the present, the solutions to the mysteries of the human heart turn out to be just as satisfying as the unraveling of this deliciously complicated plot.
This book is part of the "Charlie Bradshaw" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Saratoga Strongbox" First published in 1998 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Saratoga Fleshpot" First published in 1995 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Saratoga Backtalk" First published in 1994 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Saratoga Hexameter" First published in 1990 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Saratoga Bestiary" First published in 1988 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Saratoga Snapper" First published in 1986 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Saratoga Headhunter" First published in 1985 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Saratoga Longshot" First published in 1976 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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