Knocked for a Loop (The John J. Malone Series)

Randolph Craig

ISBN 10: 1094123048 ISBN 13: 9781094123042

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

Being framed for murder is the least of a Chicago attorney's problems in this dizzying thriller.

Attorney John J. Malone, steadfast, barfly, and proud defender of the guilty, has a lot enemies, but few more formidable than Chicago financier and anti-vice crusader Leonard Estapole. So it doesn't look good when Estapole's corpse turns up in Malone's office, liberated from this life by a bronze Buddha to the skull. But when the stiff's stepdaughter is kidnapped, and Malone is implicated, it's a frame job gone too far. Especially when Malone is suddenly saddled with the obnoxious abductee--a dimpled little extortionist who refuses to go home.

If only Malone could count on his friends, Jake and Helene Justus. Unfortunately, Helene's disappeared from a Wyoming dude ranch and her friendship with Estapole's trophy-wife widow is too coincidental for comfort. Now, with every blindsiding twist of the case, Malone is starting to feel more and more like a hostage himself.

The first mystery writer to ever make the cover of Time magazine, Craig Rice is a “composite of Agatha Christie's ingenuity, Dashiell Hammett's speed, and Dorothy Sayers's wit"" (Louis Untermeyer). And in Knocked for a Loop, she's in “top form"" (Jon L. Breen, Edgar Award–winning author).

About this title

About the Author

Craig Rice (1908-1957), born Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig, was an American author of mystery novels and short stories, sometimes described as the ""Dorothy Parker of detective fiction."" She was the first mystery writer to appear on the cover of Time magazine, on January 28, 1946.

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1094123048
• ISBN 13: 9781094123042
• Binding: Audio CD
• Number of pages: 1