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Chargement... A Taste for Violence (1949)par Brett Halliday
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Appartient à la sérieMichael Shayne (17)
In a mining town, Mike Shayne finds that buried secrets can be deadly The miners are striking in Centerville, Kentucky, and the town is about to explode. Three men have been killed in the past week, and Charles Roche fears he will be next. Heir to the Roche mining fortune, he sees death in every shadow, and the only man who can save his life is in Miami. Roche writes to world-famous detective Mike Shayne, offering a $5,000 retainer to come to Centerville and save his life. Shayne cashes the check and hops on a plane, but by the time he gets to Kentucky, his client is already dead. The mines stretch for miles underneath Centerville, and the whole town is rotten to the core. For the sake of his murdered client, Shayne takes on the entire corrupt city. If he's lucky, he'll save Centerville's soul. If he's not, he'll end up buried much deeper than six feet underground. A Taste for Violence is the 16th book in the Mike Shayne Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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be forewarned, it is completely unlike most of the other Shayne
mysteries. This one takes Miami's finest detective and plants him in a
small mining town run by a corrupt mining association, strikebreaking
thugs, and the meanest bunch of folks you ever met.
This type of novel could almost said to be a staple of pulp literature
with numerous writers from Harry Whittington to Horace McCoy and
Ross McDonald utilizing it. A stranger comes to town and every man in
town is against him. No one is happy. No one can stand up and speak
out because the temporary deputies will beat them senseless if they
disagree with the party line. A dark, depressing town where justice
seems to have disappeared.
Shayne comes into this town with only a retainer and his trusty sultry
secretary Lucy Hamilton and turns the town upside down. This is
Shayne as hardboiled and dark as he ever gets. And, it is just about as
good as any hardboiled pulp novel you find. Thumbs up for this one.
This is the good stuff, folks. (