Bibliograph

Crazybone, Bill Pronzini

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Crazybone, Bill Pronzini

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Crazybone

Oclc number

1004395608

Responsibility statement

Bill Pronzini

Series statement

"Nameless Detective" novels

Summary

"Deception turns deadly in the twenty-sixth case featuring Bill Pronzini's 'Nameless Detective.' Beyond the wrought-iron gates and behind the stuccoed facades of the Spanish-style houses in the affluent California community of Greenwood, a murderous maze of deceit, adultery, fraud, and betrayal awaits the private eye ... Not that larceny among the rich comes as a surprise to Nameless. Indeed, even before he visits the handsomely appointed offices of the blond, tanned insurance agent Rich Twining and the estate where the recently widowed Sheila Hunter lives uneasily with her wary ten-year-old daughter, the private investigator's darker suspicions have been aroused. For why would anyone, no matter how moneyed and beautiful and bereaved, refuse to claim fifty thousand dollars due to her in life insurance? The question is simple enough. The answer, though, lies several murders, many miles, ten years, a deviously contrived name game, and one baffling word clue--crazybone--away"--, Provided by publisher

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Crazy-bone

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