Extenuating Circumstances - Hardcover

Valin, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385296835 ISBN 13: 9780385296830

Publisher: Delacorte Press, 1989

Synopsis

Ira Lessing, a seemingly decent man but also the posessor of a dark secret, disappears into the dark underbelly of Cincinnati, and it is up to Harry Stoner to find him

About this title

About the Author:

Jonathan Valin is a mystery author best known for the Harry Stoner detective series. He won the Shamus Award for best mystery novel of 1989. After writing eleven Harry Stoner novels over a fourteen-year period, he took a break from mystery writing to help found Fi, a magazine of music criticism. He now works as an editor and reviewer for magazines.

From Publishers Weekly:

Fully realized characters, complex plots and excellent writing are the qualities that attract readers to Valin's series about Harry Stoner, private eye. In his eighth appearance, Stoner describes his assignment to find missing Ira Lessing, a businessman from Cincinnati, Ohio, beloved for his generous help to troubled teens. The detective is with Lessing's childlike wife Janey, and his partner, Len Trumaine, when they learn that Lessing's body has been discovered, brutally beaten. A punk teenager, Terry Carnova, not only confesses but boasts of killing Lessing, but Stoner isn't convinced. Terry's pathetic lover Kitty insists the murderer is "Tommy T," a male hustler who caters to masochists. With this information, the detective gropes his way through the fog that shrouds the facts about the victim and several suspects in the case. The story stands as a "mainstream" novel as well as a fine mystery. Mystery Book Club alternate.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0385296835
• ISBN 13: 9780385296830
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 234