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Chargement... Come Die With Mepar William Campbell Gault
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Appartient à la sérieBrock Callahan (4)
Brock gets caught in a dangerous triangle between a jockey, a mobster, and L.A.'s finest blonde Gloria Malone is a big woman with a little husband, and a problem only Brock Callahan can solve. Her jockey beau, Tip, has fallen in with a half-reformed gangster, and Gloria fears trouble for the pint-sized horseman. But as Brock quickly finds, L.A.'s criminals have more to fear from Tip than he does from them. The short man has a long mean streak, a girl on the side, and a couple of illegitimate children to boot. Even his horses don't like him. Brock isn't surprised when someone decides to end the little gremlin's racing career once and for all--with a carving knife. The world of horse racing is buried under a layer of grime that's thicker than the Santa Anita racetrack's mud after a thunderstorm. To penetrate it, Brock will have to take the whip into his own hand and do whatever it takes to stay on the horse. Come Die With Me is the 4th book in the Brock Callahan Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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Gault wrote a total of 14 Brock Callahan novels, a private eye designed to appeal to the reading masses. Indeed, when writing this series, Gault put in a little something for everybody. For the male readers, Brock "the Rock" Callahan was a Rams football star permanently on hiatus due to a bad knee. For the ladies, Gault set the series in posh Beverly Hills and had Callahan date high-class interior designer Jan. The result is an enjoyable private eye series although not as tough, violent, or cynical as other such series.
Gault published the first half of the series between 1955 and 1963 (Murder in the Raw, Day of the Ram, Convertible Hearse, Come Die With Me, Vein of Violence, County Kill, & Dead Hero) and the rest two decades later from 1982 onward (Bad Samaritan, Cano Diversion, Death in Donegal Bay, Dead Seed, Chicano War, Cat and Mouse, & Dead Pigeon).
Come Die With Me involves millionaire heiresses, Hollywood wanna-be starlets, nightclub singers, a mean jockey who women just swooned over, Mafia bosses, hoods, Malibu houses, and murder. It is an easy quick read and has Callahan essentially running all over town to try to figure out what is going on. ( )