Second American printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A very tight, clean, unread copy. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. Smoke-free. Mystery. [F-SALE].

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Title: Close Softly the Doors
Publisher: Story Line Press, Brownsville, OR
Publication Date: 1991
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0934257485
ISBN 13: 9780934257480
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Michigan private detective, Stuart Mallory is hired to protect his ex-lover from her boyfriend, after she testifies about his mob connections, but she holds back crucial information--with nearly catastrophic results

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Featuring two-fisted PI Stuart Mallory, this first novel launching a planned series fails despite some welcome fresh elements. The locale is new--the city of Lansing and the lakes and dunes of western Michigan--and Mallory is also studying for a graduate degree in sociology. But Roat's language and a number of narrative devices are stale, including the carnage set off by Kathy Whitman, a sexpot with as much honesty as Hammett's Brigid O'Shaughnessy. Although the novel has energy to burn, extraneous details neither advance the plot nor explain character; and the dialogue has all the crackle of a wet sponge. Kathy, Mallory's high school sweetheart, gets in touch with him for the first time in 15 years. She wants protection from her mob-financed lover and boss, Sam Pendergrass, who has threatened to kill her. She has stolen Sam's computerized books, she says, and testified against him before a grand jury. Before Mallory learns Kathy's secret, he has slept with her, been in a number of fights, faced murder charges and almost bled to death. The title goes unexplained.

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