The Naked Liar [Hardcover]

Harold Adams (Author)

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• Hardcover
• Publisher: Mysterious Pr; First Edition edition (June 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892961260
• ISBN-13: 978-0892961269
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,920,828 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Fourth in series..starts to show contunity, June 3, 2004

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Peter LaPrade (worcester ma) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Naked Liar (Mass Market Paperback)

"The Naked Liar" is the 4th Wilcox novel. The time setting is early 1930s, about a year after the previous novel "Missing Moon". We see many characters from that novel here, as Carl is hired to prove that an attractive, but ditzy woman didn't smother her lying, cheating husband. At first, Carl is skeptical, but then after meeting the woman's sister, Rita, he begins to believe that she is innocent. Then, two thuggish gangsters appear, wanting a stash of jewelry that Bernie( the Naker Liar/dead guy of the title) had on him. Soon, suspiction falls on the poker buddies and the stranger that brought to the last one before Bernie died. With a noirish feel at times, you can guess that justice is not eaxctly done, but some bad guys get what is coming to them. Good, solid novel.