Book Collector
Berkley Prime Crime
October 2016
On Sale: October 4, 2016
304 pages ISBN: 0425280357 EAN: 9780425280355 Kindle: B01AHKXHKC Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
The national bestselling author of The Marsh Madness
takes rare book collector Jordan Bingham on a trip to
San Franciscoβhome to Dashiell Hammettβs hard-boiled
heroesβwhere nothing is as it seems.On a getaway to the City by the Bay, book collector
Jordan Bingham becomes entangled in a mystery with more
twists than Lombard Street...
Jordan has been able to swing a romantic trip to San
Francisco with Officer Tyler βSmileyβ Dekker on one
conditionβshe must return with a rare copy of Dashiell
Hammettβs Red Harvest for her irascible employer,
Vera Van Alst. For his own part, Smiley is full of
surprises. Heβs a Dashiell devotee himselfβexcited to be in
the city of Hammettβs hard-boiled heroes like Sam Spade and
the Continental Opβand also announces he plans to visit his
previously unmentioned estranged grandmother, who lives in
an old Victorian in Pacific Heights.
But the trip goes downhill fast when Jordan is pushed from a
cable car and barely escapes death. And when a dark sedan
tries to run the couple down, itβs clear someoneβs after
themβbut who? Just like in Hammettβs world, nothing is quite
what is seems...