Books : The Vanishing Smile
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by: Earl W. Emerson
Binding: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781564311375
Format: Abridged
ISBN: 1564311376
Label: Sunset Productions
Manufacturer: Sunset Productions
Number Of Items: 2
Publication Date: 2002-06
Publisher: Sunset Productions
Sales Rank: 4898075
Studio: Sunset Productions
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Product Description:
Earl Emerson, author of The Portland Laugher and other novels featuring Seattle private eye Thomas Black, has been hailed by Aaron Elkins as 'a writer's writer--a master of witty dialogue; clever, complex plotting; and lucid, meaty prose in the best tradition of American crime fiction.' Now, in The Vanishing Smile, a fateful, fatal encounter on a rain-swept highway throws Black into a deadly investigation.
Marian Wright is an amateur sleuth in the employ of two attractive young women eager to catch up with their no-account ex-lovers. Spry and seventyish, Marian has all the resourcefulness of a professional gumshoe, and the relentlessness of a woman with a score of her own to settle. When Marian's investigation ends abruptly and ferociously--with Thomas Black and his estranged friend Kathy Birchfield as eyewitnesses--Thomas has a new case on his hands.
Picking up the pieces of Marian Wright's search for her clients' rogue boyfriends, Thomas encounters a network of people--from ex-cons to prostitutes to other private investigators--all webbed together by a chilling common thread. It's a discovery that speaks volumes about the zealousness of Marian's manhunt, and even suggests a monstrous reason for her sudden death.
Equally monstrous is an unknown, baseball-wielding assailant who seems hell-bent to ensure that the investigation stays closed. But Black doesn't need a head-bashing to grasp the violent, virulent implications behind Marian Wright's death. And readers don't need to look further than The Vanishing Smile for the red-hot action and white-knuckle suspense that have become Earl Emerson's trademarks.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - An excellent entry in one of the best series going!
So you like a good mystery, but McGees long gone and Spenser
sounds more like a bad cliche with every passing title. Take
a look at Thomas Black - Seattle's number one detective.
In this, the third installment in a trilogy beginning with Yellow Dog Party
and The Portland Laugher, our intrepid hero is attempting to
deal with the loss of the love of his life - Kathy Birchfield. It
seems Thomas killed her fiance and that put a damper on Thomas
and Kathy's relationship. Imagine that.
A ... Read More
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