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Synopsis
A Thomas Black Mystery by the Shamus-Award-Winning author of "The Rainy City."
The menacing phone calls from a maniacally laughing stranger haunt Seattle private eye Thomas Black as he lies partially paralyzed in the hospital, afflicted with memory loss. Betrayed by his body and his mind, Black struggles to piece together the shards of the investigation that nearly killed him before the owner of the maniacal laugh can return to finish the job.
As Black wades deep into a secret world of sadistic murder, he finds himself up against an adversary far deadlier than he had ever imagined. And Black can't help but wonder if the last, wicked laugh will be on him . . .
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From the Publisher
As the daughter of a fireman, I found it intriguing that one of our mystery writers, Earl Emerson, is a full-time professional firefighter. Upon further investiagtion, it turns out he's so intriguing that we used his photo in ads running in GQ and Details. But I needed to know if his writing is was intriguing as the man. So I picked up a copy of Emerson's THE PORTLAND LAUGHER. I immediately became engrossed in this Thomas Black mystery. Emerson is now one of my favorite mystery writers of all time!
Stacey Witcraft, Advertising
From Kirkus Reviews
As Seattle shamus Thomas Black (Yellow Dog Party, 1991, etc.) lies in a coma waiting for his body and memory to start working again, he flashes back to the bizarre case that left him so broken: getting hired, on the recommendation of Thomas's sleazy fellow- professional Snake Slezak, by much-married Roxanne Lake and her young houseguest Jerome Johnson to tail Philip Bacon, who's been following newly freed ex-con Billy Battle, Jerome's foster brother- -who's already being tailed by Snake. Billy's long history of violence (dead cats, arson, kidnapping, assault, possible homicide) makes it practically certain that he'll lash out again (at Jerome? at Walter Clark, the elderly neighbor who testified against Billy when he went after Jerome with a knife? at Philip, whose testimony helped put Billy away?). True to form, more violence erupts--but this time, it sends Thomas back seven years to the murder of Roxanne's wealthy fourth husband weeks after they pledged their troth forever. Are the two teen runaways doing life for the killing really innocent? How many of the truckload of crimes he's being tabbed for did Billy actually commit? And what will Thomas's long- term girlfriend think of the way he's hassling her new fianc‚ Philip? Not even a hair-raising climax in a mountain cabin, with the few remaining suspects dodging each others' bullets and accusations, will provide all the answers to this impossibly dense case. Emerson's biggest, darkest novel yet, a clangorous three- alarmer that'll leave you wound tighter than Billy Battle. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherBallantine Books
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0345384857
- ISBN 13 9780345384850
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages344
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