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Trouble In Rooster Paradise
T.W. Emory
Coffeetown Press
July 2015
On Sale: July 1, 2015
256 pages
ISBN: 1603819967
EAN: 9781603819961
Kindle: B0100Q4ZUO
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Mystery
Recuperating from an injury and prompted by an eager young
nurse, old-timer Gunnar Nilson looks back at one of his big
cases as a private eye in 1950. At that time memories of
World War II were still fresh, and Seattle was a cultural
backwater. The Ballard neighborhood where he hung out his
shingle teemed with working-class folk of Scandinavian
descent. Gals with hourglass figures and gimlet eyes enticed
men in gray flannel suits with cigarettes dangling from
their lips. The case he recounts involves the murder
of one of these beauties. Gunnar's business card is in her
pocket, but she's no client. She's just a gal he met at the
movies; he gave her a ride home and helped her lose the
creep who was tailing her. It's none of Gunnar's business
who killed her, not until he discovers she dated the godson
of a wealthy client, a man who's willing to pay big bucks
for Gunnar to nose around. Nose around he does, in the
perfumed rooms of Fasciné Expressions, a rooster paradise
that employed the murdered girl and is frequented by the
godson. Schooled to be class acts by a former showgirl,
these fine-feathered hens know how to inspire a man to spend
big on gifts for his lady. Gunnar believes the victim was
killed by one of her customers, but the heady fragrance of
perfumed female can make it awfully tough for a guy to think
clearly, especially when the killer is also breathing down
his neck.
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