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Dead Letter
The Harry Stoner Series (Book 3)
- Author
- Jonathan Valin
- Narrator
- Mark Peckham
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 1 October 2012
- Run Time
- 7 hours 32 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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
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“Rough, vivid, and impressive.”
San Francisco Chronicle, praise for the series
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“Jonathan Valin’s The Lime Pit…is powerful and brilliantly filled with difficult-to-forget characters, including the protagonist, private eye Harry Stoner…Valin wrote fewer that a half dozen Stoner novels set in and around Cincinnati. All are gems. They never caught on, never got an audience, while far lesser talents became best sellers. It would be great if some enterprising publisher picked up the Stoner novels. I would read them all again and recommend them to all lovers of hard-boiled mysteries.”
Stuart M. Kaminsky on The Lime Pit
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“Stoner calls Cincinnati home, which probably explains the death wish that got him into the gumshoe racket. Three books by writer Jonathan Valin—The Lime Pit, Final Notice, and Dead Letter—feature Stoner, a soft touch and a bad judge of character, risking life and limb to smash a kiddie prostitution ring, hunt down a library vandal-psycho killer, and figure out who bumped off a college prof trading in government secrets.”
Steven X. Rea, praise for the series
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Details
- Author
- Jonathan Valin
- Narrator
- Mark Peckham
- Duration
- 7 hours 32 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 October 2012
- ISBN
- 9781620643150
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction
Synopsis
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.
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