Saratoga Haunting: A Charlie Bradshaw Mystery - Hardcover

Dobyns, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670845817 ISBN 13: 9780670845811

Publisher: Viking, 1993

Synopsis

Streetwise private eye Charlie Bradshaw must face two crimes from his past that suddenly resurface, as well as a commitment ultimatum from his longtime companion, Janie. By the author of Body Traffic. 15,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen Dobyns is a professor of English at Syracuse University.

From Kirkus Reviews:

When the skull of Grace Mulholland, an office manager who disappeared 18 years ago with $233,000 from the insurance company she worked for, turns up buried under Jacko's Pool Hall, private eye Charlie Bradshaw, tormented by the way he handled the case as a cop back in 1974--he persuaded his boss that reclusive, painfully shy Mulholland had fled alone to Mexico--takes a long second look at the surviving cast, and at the ghost of his old, unrecognizable self. Meanwhile, Charlie is waiting for Maximum Tubbs, an old gambler, to finish dying, and he's getting threatening letters from Virgil Darcy, a paroled bank robber who swore revenge when Charlie put him away. As usual, literate, melancholy Charlie (Saratoga Hexameter, etc.) stands head and shoulders above the faceless cast of suspects, who, here, mainly provide him with an excuse to ruminate about time and death. Who cares whodunit when it's coming to everybody? -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0670845817
• ISBN 13: 9780670845811
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224