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Product Identifiers

PublisherSt. Martin's Press

ISBN-100312287836

ISBN-139780312287832

eBay Product ID (ePID)2310643

Product Key Features

Book TitleThin Walls

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2002

TopicAfrican American / General, Mystery & Detective / General, Historical, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators

FeaturesRevised

GenreFiction

AuthorKris Nelscott

Book SeriesSmokey Dalton Novels Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight20 oz

Item Length10.1 in

Item Width4.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-068350

Series Volume NumberNo. 3

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisA Dangerous Road, which introduced readers to Smokey Dalton and told the story of the days leading up to Martin Luther King, Jr.s assassination in Memphis, was an Edgar Award finalist for Best Novel. Next came the stunning moke-Filled Rooms, set in Chicago during 1968s Democratic National Convention. Now up-and-coming suspense master Nelscott picks up the compelling events of Smokeys life in the tense setting of Chicago in early 1969, as he is hired to investigate the brutal murders of three black men., "I hear you help people find things." So begins the latest case for Smokey Dalton, Kris Nelscott's enigmatic African-American p.i. But when Mrs. Alice Foster comes to the door of his small apartment, she's not missing a pet, or even a loved one: She wants Smokey to find her husband's killer. Three weeks ago, Louis Foster was found propped up against a tree in a city park, stabbed once through the heart. The cops have given up, and Smokey isn't surprised: It's 1968, and the Chicago PD cops who responded to the scene have clearly written off the death of this black man as a mugging gone wrong, or something equally unimportant. Case closed. Not for Smokey. He starts at the beginning, enlisting the reluctant help of a photojournalist who took pictures at the scene. Then, going back through newspaper archives, looking for patterns, clues, wild theories-anything that will help him figure out why a middle-class black man would be found dead in a public park miles from home-Smokey learns something startling. Louis Foster doesn't look to be the first. Amid trying to protect his adopted ten-year-old son, who's being hassled at school by some older gang members, Smokey, the photojournalist, and two renegade cops who risk their careers to help him, set off on the hunt for a killer. Nelscott's Edgar Award-nominated "A Dangerous Road, which introduced Smokey Dalton and told the story of the days leading up to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in Memphi

LC Classification NumberPS3564.E39T48 2002