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Dead Letter

The Harry Stoner Series (Book 3)

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The professor was an eccentric old bird, and his daughter was a delicate flower. So how could Harry Stoner suspect the snake pit of hatred and greed he was walking into that winter day when he agreed to find a missing document for Professor Daryl Lovingwell?

Following Sarah Lovingwell to a subversive group landed Stoner face-to-face with a towering ex-marine making a new career of murder. Before Stoner could catch his balance, one of the two Lovingwells was dead, and snow-steeped Cincinnati was cut through the center by a highway of blood and violence. Harry Stoner was in the middle of it—holding the pieces of an explosive puzzle of lies.

Blackmail, adultery, and evil—an evil you’d never associate with a sensitive little man in tweed, until you saw good people die before your eyes.

Critics Review

“Rough, vivid, and impressive.”

San Francisco Chronicle, praise for the series

“Jonathan Valin’s The Lime Pit…is powerful and brilliantly filled with difficult-to-forget characters,n including the protagonist, private eye Harry Stoner…Valin wrote fewer that a half dozen Stoner novels set in and around nCincinnati. All are gems. They never caught on, never got an audience, nwhile far lesser talents became best sellers. It would be great if some nenterprising publisher picked up the Stoner novels. I would read them nall again and recommend them to all lovers of hard-boiled mysteries.”

Stuart M. Kaminsky on The Lime Pit

“Stoner calls Cincinnati home, which probably explains nthe death wish that got him into the gumshoe racket. Three books by nwriter Jonathan Valin—The Lime Pit, Final Notice, and Dead Letter—feature Stoner, a soft touch and a bad judge of character, risking nlife and limb to smash a kiddie prostitution ring, hunt down a library nvandal-psycho killer, and figure out who bumped off a college prof ntrading in government secrets.”

Steven X. Rea, praise for the series
Author Jonathan Valin
Narrator Mark Peckham
Series The Harry Stoner Series
Duration 7 hours and 32 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781620643150
Format Audiobook
Publisher Blackstone Publishing
Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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