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Chargement... Framed in Blood (1951)par Brett Halliday
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Appartient à la sérieMichael Shayne (20)
When a blackmail scheme goes wrong, Mike Shayne is left to pick up the pieces Bert Jackson could have been a great reporter, if he had the patience for it. Married to a woman with expensive taste, Jackson has spent himself into the kind of debt that he'll never pay off at $62.50 a week. He needs a big score, and he needs it tonight. Working the city hall beat, Jackson has stumbled upon the greatest corruption scandal in Miami history. If he publishes it, he could win a Pulitzer. But it's money that he wants, and he'll risk death to get it. Using the information in his story, Jackson plans to blackmail a powerful local official for $10,000, and he asks Mike Shayne for help. Shayne has seen too many blackmail artists wind up dead to get involved with something like this, and he warns Jackson to stay away. When the reporter turns up dead, it's up to Shayne to uncover his final scoop. Framed in Blood is the 19th 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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corruption, bored widows, and hoods of all types filled the Shsyne
novels.
Framed In Blood includes all of the usual Shayne characters, including secretary Lucy Hamilton, best friend reporter Tim Rourke, and chief Will Gentry. It figures into murder, corruption, blackmail, suicide,
adultery, and more. It's one of the odd Shsyne stories where he doesn't exactly have a client but still gets cute with the local police trying to protect would-be client's confidences. It features real knock-down bloody brawls with hoods, cat fights, and a trail of corruption a mile long. It all behins with a young reporter and a money-hungry wife and a deal Shayne can't agree to.
There's a lot of great stuff in this novel and, for those of us who have read lots of the series, it's got a real familiar feel. But it's not the best of the lot. Perhaps the plot is a bit too winding and convoluted.
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