Dead Skip: a Dka File Novel
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Dead Skip: a Dka File Novel by Joe Gores
Raw reality. A tough, taut writer. Saves a gut-punch for the climax. -- The Washington Post In the first book of Joe Gores's razor-sharp Daniel Kearny Associates series, a DKA investigator clings to life after a devastating car crash. The police are ready to write it off as a drunk driving incident, but the DKA team knows it was an attempted homicide. Now they have seventy-two hours to search the backstreets of San Francisco and find the truth about the accident from a stripper, an embezzler, an ex-con, and other unsavory characters. Gores, a former detective and three-time Edgar Award-winner, spins a gritty, fast-moving tale that mystery lovers can't resist and compares with the best of Hammett and Chandler. This new edition of Dead Skip features a bonus DKA short story, File #2: Stakeout on Page Street. A traditional American crime novel, out of Black Mask, Hammett, and Chandler. . . . The Continental Op could do no more. . . . Gores] has come up with a winner. -- The New York Times Gores is] one of the very few authentic private eyes to enter the field of fiction since Dashiell Hammett. -- Anthony Boucher The hard, compelling smack of raw truth. -- Ellery Queen, on the DKA File series
Joe Gores (1931-2011) won Edgar Awards in three separate categories: Best First Novel, Best Short Story, and Best TV Series Segment. His many day jobs included truck driver, bodybuilding instructor, carny, and English teacher at a boys' school in Kenya as well as a dozen years as a private investigator in the San Francisco area. His work repossessing cars provided grist for the mill of his DKA series, making them -- in the words of Ellery Queen -- [as] authentic as a fist in your face. Critics have compared Gores to Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Erle Stanley Gardner -- and to Dashiell Hammett.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780486834658 |
| ISBN 10 | 0486834654 |
| Title | Dead Skip: a Dka File Novel |
| Author | Joe Gores |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Year published | 2019-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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