The Cold Handshake - Softcover

Bain, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 151149767X ISBN 13: 9781511497671

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

The Cold Handshake by Alan Bain. A noirish tale recalling the paperback Era. Pacific City, 1952. Crooked. Dirty. Contemptible. Dangerous. That's Largo. That's Pacific City. A grifter in the most remote, the most sleazy city in the world. Largo's life changed forever when he met the girl of his dreams: Rita Fleischer. This was a dame to take things real smooth with. A dame to live for. Now he could forget the scams, the mob bosses and the dirty money. Or he should've. Then Rita was murdered. She became a phantom, a ghost. Rita haunted Largo. And she'd haunt him all the way to the electric chair. . . Reader's caution: This story contains adult themes and frequent language that may cause offence.

About this title

About the Author:

Alan Bain is a first time novelist without any special intuition or super-powers. He lives mostly in his own head – sometimes in others’ – and usually for a lifetime. Alan enjoys the Paperback Era and Penny Dreadfuls and confesses to a desire to see them resurrected like some washed up alcoholic PI in a Vampyr laundrette. Alan’s influences are Chandler, Ellroy, Brewer, Palahnuik, Doyle, Poe and Miller. Alan Bain is a Scot living in Scotland. Find out more at: www.clarty-noir.com

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 151149767X
• ISBN 13: 9781511497671
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238