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Richard Hoyt
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Decoys: A John Denson Mystery |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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203 |
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1980-08 |
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0871313308 |
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M Evans & Co |
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1.58 pounds |
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6.57 x 9.13 x 1.11 inches |
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First Edition |
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Product Description
In Decoys, Richard Hoyt gives the hard-boiled detective the long goodbye for the last time, creating the world's first soft-boiled sleuth, John Denson. Here is a detective for the 80', who loves screw-top wine, refuses to carry a gun, and holds a firm belief that Philip Marlowe never would have stood for having some dame quote Betty Friedan to him. Decoys opens when Pamela Yew, a stunning woman who introduces herself as a detective working for Coyote, the San Francisco Prostitute's Union, walks into Denson's office and tells him a brutal story of four girls who were murdered by their pimp. The pimp, it seems, is hiding in Cayuse, Oregon, which just happens to be Denson's home town. All Denson has to do is act as Pamela's decoy by introducing her as his fiancee while she goes about her business. Once here arrives home, though, Denson finds that Pamela Yew is working on a far more deadly game than vengeance - and that he is being used as more than an innocent decoy.
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