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Dead run

Richard Lockridge

1976185 pagesabout 3–4 hours
1976
first published
  • 1976J.B. Lippincott · 192 pages · ENG
  • 1976J. B. Lippincott · 192 pages · ENG
  • 1976Lippincott · 225 pages · ENGISBN 9780397011322
  • 1976Lippincott · 196 pages · ENG
  • 1977Long · 185 pages · ENG
  • 1977John LongISBN 9780091291303
  • 2018MysteriousPress.com · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9781504050623

Perhaps the driver of the big station wagon didn't see Sam Jackson on that icy December night in the parking lot of a country inn. But why weren't the wagon's headlights turned on? And why did the driver run over Sam *twice*? Inspector M. L. Heimrich, New York State Police. has a special interest in this one. Sam Jackson was a personal friend, and the sole eyewitness to his death was the girl friend of M. L.'s stepson. Pursuing clues in his tough-minded, imaginative way, Heimrich learns a remarkable fact. Jackson, while acting as the defense attorney on a local homicide, may have accidentally uncovered some very unusual proof of the real murderer's identity—a person who would stop at nothing to keep Sam Jackson quiet.

How it feels

AtmosphereNoir

How it reads

Plot intensityEventful

When and where

ThemesJustice
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