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Malone, a Jersey-tough private investigator, has two new clients: John Samson, a professional wrestler receiving threatening phone calls, and Narcissa Sue Samples, a theology student and part-time stripper accused of murder
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Malone is a smart-alecky private eye in Jersey City, a former FBI agent and one-time Jesuit seminarian who has specialized in homicide cases ever since his wife was killed in Jersey Tomatoes, his first case. In earlier years, Malone was also a wrestler, an experience that stands him in good stead here when a big-time wrestling promoter hires him to track down the threatening letters sent to a rising-star wrestler named Samson. At the same time Malone's secretary asks him to help out her tenant, a young woman who strips at nightright down to her hot ticketsto pay for her daytime studies for the Episcopalian priesthood. Eventually the two cases come together for Malone, but not before Samson's bountiful ringside assistant Delilah is crushed to death in a wrestlng hold, or before the holy stripper's boss is executed, or her financial arrangement with a hot-shot lawyer of questionable ethics is revealed, nor before Malone suffers repeated and varied attempts on his own life. The action is fast and furious and the dialogue equallyand often confusinglyso. The ambiance of Jersey City combines with that of wrestling's serio-comic world to surprisingly piquant effect.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Malone, ex-seminarian, ex-FBI agent, now a private investigator in Jersey City, made a much acclaimed debut in Jersey Tomatoes (1986). Now Malone finds himself drawn into the glitzy realm of professional wrestling and its ties to organized crime. Meanwhile Selma, Malone's secretary, has involved him in the problems of a stripper who is studying for the ministry. From this point the story moves through a succession of outlandish characters and heaps of Rider's special brand of humor to a raucous conclusion. JV
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The top edge of the text block has some ground-in dirt and small spots of discoloration. Both front and rear dust jacket flaps have toning. "In Stevens' novel By Reason of Insanity the serial killer character, Thomas Bishop, believes he is the son of Caryl Chessman, who was executed in 1960 for various crimes including rape and kidnapping. The hero of his later novel The Anvil Chorus, a Paris police inspector, is an Alsatian Jew apparently related to Alfred Dreyfus. Stevens also wrote two crime novels under the pseudonym J. W. Rider: Jersey Tomatoes (Arbor 1986) and Hot Tickets (Arbor 1987). The protagonist is Ryder Malone in both novels. The setting is New Jersey. Malone is an extremely tough private detective who specializes in cases of murder. " (from Wikipedia). Seller Inventory # A42491
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