Toll Call [Mass Market Paperback]

Stephen Greenleaf (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 12, 1988

"Stephen Greeleaf's John Marshall Tanner series improves with age. Tanner [is]...altogether one of the most convincing of today's private eyes."
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P.I. Marsh Tanner thought he knew his secretary Peggy well. But he didn't know half as much as the phone caller, the mystery man who called Peggy at home and threatened her with mutilation if she refused to tell him her most intimate secrets and desires. And he could never have imagined that Peggy might grow to love the calls as much as she hated them. But in the treacherous, twisted days that were to follow, there was much about Peggy--and himself--that Marsh Tanner would wish he didn't know....

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"Stephen Greeleaf's John Marshall Tanner series improves with age. Tanner [is]...altogether one of the most convincing of today's private eyes."
THE SAN DIEGO UNION
P.I. Marsh Tanner thought he knew his secretary Peggy well. But he didn't know half as much as the phone caller, the mystery man who called Peggy at home and threatened her with mutilation if she refused to tell him her most intimate secrets and desires. And he could never have imagined that Peggy might grow to love the calls as much as she hated them. But in the treacherous, twisted days that were to follow, there was much about Peggy--and himself--that Marsh Tanner would wish he didn't know....

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Fawcett (September 12, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345353498
• ISBN-13: 978-0345353498
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,050,008 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't judge Greenleaf on this book, April 9, 2006

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Peter (Melbourne Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toll Call (Mass Market Paperback)

I will admit that I am a HUGE fan of Stephen Greenleaf and he is the closest author who has come to capturing the magic of Ross MacDonald in my eyes.......

......but he is not as good as MacDonald. Sometimes he got close (his first two books - Grave Error and Death Bed - as well as his fifth book - Beyond Blame - got to MacDonald standards) but Toll Call was exceptionally ordinary.

It was sleazy, dull, fanciful and generally boring. Not a normal Greenleaf at all.

Avoid buying this book if you want to try Greenleaf for the first time.

4.0 out of 5 stars Another Great Mystery in the Marshall Tanner Series, June 5, 2009

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Bonnie Brody "Book Lover and Knitter" (Port St. Lucie, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Toll Call (Mass Market Paperback)

This is another great addition to Stephen Greenleaf's Marshall Tanner series.

In this mystery, a sex pervert is after Peggy, Marshall Tanner's secretary.

Tanner continues to be a literate and well-read sleuth. This is a mystery for

serious readers as well as mystery lovers.