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Chargement... Deadly Weapon (1946)par Whit Masterson
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Her name was Shasta Lynn--a names as phony as the color of her golden hair. She was big and beautiful, and she knew how to tease when she stripped. She was so sensational no one noticed that an admirer in the last row wore a knife sticking in his heart. Curtains go up on a drama of murder, racketeering, dope-peddling, and double-dealing romance. And a smart San Diego cop calls the finale for one of the toughest killers ever to clear the stage for death. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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It is a terrific hardboiled detective story, easy to read, and written in a terse, clipped manner without any fancy, extraneous descriptions. It takes place, as did many of the Wade Miller books, in San Diego.
Walter James is an Atlanta detective. He ends up in San Diego after his partner is gunned down. The partner’s wife had been in Miami, but she disappeared without a trace. James’ partner had been investigating something, first in Denver, and then in San Diego, something linked to marijuana.
Acting on a tip, James heads to San Diego, but before he can speak with his connection, that man too is gunned down in the middle of a crowded theater with hundreds of witnesses present, none of whom ever saw the stabber. It's a burlesque striptease theater featuring the headline act of Shasts Lynn. James makes pals with the local police and with a girl who had been present herself in the theater next to the deceased contact, Laura Gilbert. James is no dummy. This is a good, old-fashioned postwar mystery and certainly established the writing duo of Wade Miller as force to be reckoned with. ( )