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Santa Fe rules

Stuart Woods

1992303 pagesabout 5–7 hours
1992
first published
  • 1992HarperCollins Publishers · 303 pages · ENGISBN 9780060179632
  • 1992Thorndike Press · 439 pages · ENGISBN 9781560545132
  • 1993HarperCollins · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9780002239899
  • 1996HarperCollins · 303 pages · ENGISBN 9780006473183
  • 2007HarperCollins · ENGISBN 9780061558702
  • 2001Stealth Press · 320 pagesISBN 9781588810281

Better Off DeadSuccessful Hollywood movie producer Wolf Willettis stunned when he happens to read his own New York Times obituary--victim of a sordid triple homicide amid a steamy meage a trois with his young bride and best friend. Who's the corpse? Who wants him dead? And why has Wolf blacked out the entire evening of the grisly crime?Unfortunatly, the Santa Fe D.A. thinks Wolf has all the answers. With the means, the motive and an inexplicable memory loss, he is promptly arrested--star suspect in a murder case that's making headlines from coast to coast. Then another murder complicates the scenario. With help from hot shot criminal attorney Ed Eagle and with New Mexico's death penalty as an incentive, Wolf races to clear his name--and dodge the real killer--in this thrilling novel of mazes, mystery and murder.

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AtmosphereNoir

How it reads

Plot intensityEventful

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ThemesJustice
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