Perfectly Healthy Man Drops Dead - Softcover

Hartman, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0999756427 ISBN 13: 9780999756423

Publisher: Swallow Tail Press, 2018

Synopsis

Peter Cloud lost his partnership in a top law firm and his license to practice thanks to the machinations of Neil Babylon, its senior partner. When Babylon is murdered, Cloud is the prime suspect. To save his skin he must find the real killer, which means taking on the law firm, the police, the Mafia, a psychopathic skinhead and the large contingent of people who wanted to see Babylon dead. Perfectly Healthy Man Drops Dead is a lively, funny and exciting mystery which has become a minor classic.     
"... a gripping mystery from first page to last, a top pick for community library mystery collections." Midwest Book Review.   Perfectly Healthy Man Drops Dead won the Salvo Press Mystery Novel award and was published by Salvo Press in 2008. It is presented here in a slightly revised Tenth Anniversary Edition.

About this title

From the Author

Perfectly Healthy Man Drops Dead was  my first novel and after ten years it is still one of the most popular. For this revised Tenth Anniversary Edition, a few corrections and clarifications have been made and the price of the paperback has been reduced to make it more affordable. I hope you will read and enjoy it. If you do, please consider posting a customer review on Amazon under this revised edition (not the original edition). Thanks!

From the Back Cover

Don't panic. I'm not really a lawyer, at least not any more.  It's been over three years since the Supreme Court stripped me of my license to split hairs. At first it was rough.  My wife of ten years left me, my dog of six years bit me, my kids screamed bloody murder when I came for a visit. To keep body and soul together I made the unceremonious transition from the Bar of Philadelphia to the Piano Bar of the Pickwick Club on 19th Street just south of Chestnut, where I provide nightly entertainment to a small but dedicated band of inebriates. In short, I'm a disbarred lawyer eking out a living playing cocktail piano for an assortment of drunks and misfits--and the man who did the most to put me here was Neil M. Babylon, Esquire, age 56, who was found dead that morning in his office at the prestigious Rittenhouse law firm.  Foul play was suspected and, in my opinion, richly deserved.              Of course I was the number one suspect...*** Peter Cloud lost his partnership in a top law firm and his license to practice thanks to the machinations of Neil Babylon, its senior partner.  When Babylon is murdered, Cloud is the prime suspect. To save his skin he must find the real killer, which means taking on the law firm, the police, the Mafia, a psychopathic skinhead and the large contingent of people who wanted to see Babylon dead.  Perfectly Healthy Man  Drops Dead is a lively, funny and exciting mystery which has become a minor classic.         "... a gripping mystery from first page to last, a top pick for community library mystery collections."  Midwest Book Review.             Perfectly Healthy Man Drops Dead won the Salvo Press Mystery Novel Award and was published by Salvo Press in 2008. It is presented here in a slightly revised Tenth Anniversary Edition. Bruce Hartman is the author of seven other novels, including The Rules of Dreaming, The Philosophical Detective, and Potlatch: A Comedy.  He lives with his wife in Philadelphia.   

Edition details

• Publisher: Swallow Tail Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0999756427
• ISBN 13: 9780999756423
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 358