Dogtown (Whitney Logan Mystery) - Hardcover

Lambert, Mercedes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670834793 ISBN 13: 9780670834792

Publisher: Viking, 1991

Synopsis

A down-on-her luck attorney, Whitney Logan, and her Chicana sidekick, Lupe, stumble into the world of Central American politics, drug-running, and murder when they search for a missing illegal alien maid

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Whitney Logan is eight months out of law school at UCLA and owes her landlord $850, so she's not too picky when a well-dressed brunette walks in off the street and offers her $1000 in cash to look for a missing Guatemalan maid. What follows in this promising first novel is a rough-and-tumble mystery-thriller that moves from run-down movie lots to immigrant barrios to Baja Mexico and back. Logan is one tough attorney--her idea of relaxation is dumbbell presses at Gold's Gym--but immigration law is not one of her strengths. Neither is the Los Angeles underclass, so she hires as her guide Lupe, a street-smart hooker in a red mini-dress, and the result is a partnership that transcends their differences, and that is handled with a sense of humor. The West Coast setting is reminiscent of Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone mysteries, but Whitney Logan is much less genteel.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0670834793
• ISBN 13: 9780670834792
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272