Polaroid Man - Hardcover

Cormany, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1559720697 ISBN 13: 9781559720694

Publisher: Birch Lane Pr, 1991

Synopsis

Private detective Dan Kruger agrees to meet a new client the next day at her home, but when he arrives he discovers her body and must convince the police of his innocence

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In Cormany's ( Red Winter ) fourth Dan Kruger novel, the bargain-basement Chicago private eye investigates the murder of beautiful, amoral Andrea Gale in Johnson City, Ill. Our pill-popping, alcoholic hero finds himself as welcome in the seedy small town as a sprig of poison ivy in a salad--he is beaten up by thugs, warned off the case by the cops and lied to. Undeterred, Kruger probes a list of suspects including Andrea's intellectual but sometimes abusive boyfriend; her jealous roommate, Lisa, who seems intent on a romantic relationship with Kruger despite their unpropitious first meeting at the crime scene; and Andrea and Lisa's lecherous boss. Enlightening visits to local dives, a collection of compromising snapshots and introductions to various undesirables who knew Andrea soon help Kruger solve her murder and two others. This rousing story, rife with lewdness, one-liners and blackmail, is a misogynistic view of the seamy side, definitely not for the fastidious.
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Chicago pill-popping p.i. Dan Kruger (Rich or Dead, 1990, etc.), barely 30 days sober and moonlighting as a rock-band guitarist, meets a blonde in a bar who wants to hire him--but doesn't say why. The next morning she's dead; her best friend Lisa thinks that Kruger did it; and the Johnson City police are giving him a hard time. What was the late Andrea Gale up to? Despite seriously falling off the wagon, Kruger sorts through two more murders and a blackmail setup, as well as survives several beatings, before finally returning to the Crazy Alm nightclub and the arms of a skinhead-groupie wearing black lipstick. Though Kruger has sort of cleaned up his act--he no longer tries to get his pet bunny, Bugs, stoned--he's still too manufactured a hero to elicit much sympathy: one part cute pet to two parts glib wisecracks to three-fifths a bottle of scotch. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Edition details

• Publisher: Birch Lane Pr
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1559720697
• ISBN 13: 9781559720694
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228