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Author Talton, Jon, author.

Title City of dark corners / Jon Talton.

Publication Info. Naperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press, [2021]
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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  M TALTON, J.    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  MY TALTON, J.    Storage
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  MYSTERY TALTON    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  FIC TALTON    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  TALTON, JON    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F TALTON, J.    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  FIC MYS TALTON    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F TALTON, JON    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Mysteries  M TALTON    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Mysteries  M TALTON JON    Check Shelf

Description 242 pages ; 22 cm
Summary "Phoenix, 1933: A young city with big dreams and dark corners. Great War veteran and rising star Gene Hammons lost his job as a homicide detective when he tried to prove that a woman was wrongly convicted of murder to protect a well-connected man. Now a private investigator, Hammons makes his living looking for missing persons--a plentiful caseload during the Great Depression, when people seem to disappear all the time. But his routine is disrupted when his brother--another homicide detective, still on the force--enlists his help looking into the death of a young woman whose dismembered body is found beside the railroad tracks. The sheriff rules it an accident, but the carnage is too neat, and the staging of the body parts too ritual. Hammons suspects it's the work of a 'lust murderer'--similar to the serial strangler whose killing spree he had ended a few years earlier. But who was the poor girl, dressed demurely in pink? And why was his business card tucked into her small purse? As Hammons searches for the victim's identity, he discovers that the dead girl had some secrets of her own, and that the case is connected to some of Phoenix's most powerful citizens-on both sides of the law"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Ex-police officers -- Arizona -- Phoenix -- Fiction.
Private investigators -- Arizona -- Phoenix -- Fiction.
Police -- Arizona -- Phoenix -- Fiction.
Brothers -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Arizona -- Phoenix -- Fiction.
Women -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
Nineteen thirties -- Fiction.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction.
Phoenix (Ariz.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Detective and mystery fiction.
Noir fiction.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9781464213250 (paperback)
1464213259 (paperback)
9781464213281 (pdf)
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