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Headed for a Hearse (American Mystery Classics) by Jonathan Latimer
Headed for a Hearse (American Mystery Classics) by Jonathan Latimer
Robert Westland's date with the executioner is just around the corner when he finally decides to fight the murder rap sending him to the electric chair. Framed for his wife's grisly demise, Westland is in a bind, and his last hope is Bill Crane, a booze-soaked detective who's as ruthless with a quip as he is when trawling the streets for Chicago's most brutal criminal element.
Crane's got just six days to suss out the real killer; he sets his sights on a cast of oddball characters, aided by a lime squeezer, a quart of whiskey, a monkey wrench, a taxicab, a stopwatch, and a deep sea diver.... but in 1930s Chicago, everyone's got a secret, and the pressure is on for Crane to separate the dangerous from the truly homicidal before it's too late.
The second novel in the Bill Crane series, Headed for a Hearse is a tough, hardboiled tale with a baffling locked-room mystery at its core and plenty of screwball antics throughout. In 1937, it was adapted for the screen as The Westland Case.
Jonathan Latimer was a bestselling author and screenwriter, whose mystery bonafide including writing the script for The Glass Key (1942), The Big Clock (1948), and dozens of episodes of the Perry Mason television series.
PENZLER PUBLICATIONS, SOFTCOVER, 1935, 2022
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