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313 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black boards with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. The gimmick here is Zeke Gahagan, ""the world's oldest private eye,"" an 82-year-old with diminishing gastric capabilities and a dreary tendency to recall what his friend and inspiration ""Dash"" Hammett might have done in a similar situation. Actress Fay Manning, an old chum, asks Zeke to find Laurence Knight, an actor who disappeared after he indiscreetly let something slip at a dinner party--and someone later retaliated by spraying his garage door with bullets. Also at that dinner were: a director, a costume designer, a composer, and in spirit--though too sick to attend--a movie director. They were commemorating the 50th anniversary of the rape/strangulation unsolved murder of movie enchantress Kara Kolvang. Does the missing Knight actually know whodunit? Soon his look-alike grandson Lars is shot dead; Tim Kerrigan, the man he implicated over…
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- Title The Man Who Knew Hammett
- Author McConnor, Vincent
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- Pages 313
- Publisher Tor Books, New York
- Date 1988
- ISBN 9780312931094
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