Ex-cop Dan Kruger risks his own life when he tries to find out who murdered Andrea Gale, a very beautiful young woman with a dark past that many want to hide. Original.
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From Publishers Weekly
In Cormany's ( Red Winter ) fourth Dan Kruger novel, the bargain-basement Chicago private eye investigates the murder of beautiful, amoral Andrea Gale in Johnson City, Ill. Our pill-popping, alcoholic hero finds himself as welcome in the seedy small town as a sprig of poison ivy in a salad--he is beaten up by thugs, warned off the case by the cops and lied to. Undeterred, Kruger probes a list of suspects including Andrea's intellectual but sometimes abusive boyfriend; her jealous roommate, Lisa, who seems intent on a romantic relationship with Kruger despite their unpropitious first meeting at the crime scene; and Andrea and Lisa's lecherous boss. Enlightening visits to local dives, a collection of compromising snapshots and introductions to various undesirables who knew Andrea soon help Kruger solve her murder and two others. This rousing story, rife with lewdness, one-liners and blackmail, is a misogynistic view of the seamy side, definitely not for the fastidious.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Kirkus Reviews
Chicago pill-popping p.i. Dan Kruger (Rich or Dead, 1990, etc.), barely 30 days sober and moonlighting as a rock-band guitarist, meets a blonde in a bar who wants to hire him--but doesn't say why. The next morning she's dead; her best friend Lisa thinks that Kruger did it; and the Johnson City police are giving him a hard time. What was the late Andrea Gale up to? Despite seriously falling off the wagon, Kruger sorts through two more murders and a blackmail setup, as well as survives several beatings, before finally returning to the Crazy Alm nightclub and the arms of a skinhead-groupie wearing black lipstick. Though Kruger has sort of cleaned up his act--he no longer tries to get his pet bunny, Bugs, stoned--he's still too manufactured a hero to elicit much sympathy: one part cute pet to two parts glib wisecracks to three-fifths a bottle of scotch. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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