The Painted Gun [electronic resource]
Bradley Spinelli2017
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2018 Shamus Award Finalist: A "tricky and delightfully surprising crime novel"
set at the dawn of the digital age in San Francisco (Publishers Weekly).It's
1997, and the dotcom boom is going strong in San Francisco. But ex-journalist
and struggling alcoholic David "Itchy" Crane's fledgling "information
consultancy" business is getting slowly buried by bad luck, bad decisions, and
the growing presence of the Internet. Before he can completely self-destruct, a
private investigator offers him fifty grand to find a missing girl named Ashley.
Crane takes the job because the money's right and because the only clue to her
disappearance is a dead-on oil portrait of Crane himself-painted by the
mysterious missing girl whom he has never met.As Crane's search for Ashley
becomes an obsession, he stumbles upon a series of murders, for which he begins
to fear he's being framed..."Spinelli deftly segues from one genre to
another-from hard-boiled noir to paranoid thriller, puzzle mystery (...
Main title:
The Painted Gun [electronic resource] / Bradley Spinelli
Author:
Bradley Spinelli, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Akashic Books, 2017
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781617755057
Language:
English
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BRN:
433298
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |