Murder Will Out
by Tony Piazza
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Pub Date Oct 13 2017 | Archive Date Nov 26 2018
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Description
LOGAN IS THE FIRST PERSON YOU’D CALL FOR TWO-FISTED DETECTIVE ACTION! And three times Logan means three times the adventure. 1930s Hollywood wasn’t just moving picture stars and backlots. It was also a petri dish crawling with crime. Power breeding corruption, wealth motivating robbery, and revenge leading to murder. In these three tales, Private Investigator, Tom Logan uses his brains, fists, and caustic wit, to first, take on a mysterious organization called ‘The Syndicate,’ which is usurping territory from other mobs and has placed a target on him, and the female witness he’s protecting. In a second story, Tom rescues a fair maiden from the clutches of a racketeer running a gambling boat. She becomes the ‘marker’ Logan has to prevent him from cashing in. And finally, Tom discovers that revenge is anything but sweet. A repeat (serial) murderer – labeled ‘The Full Moon Killer’ by the press, is stalking The City of Angels. Unfortunately, Logan’s name is on this character’s list.
Advance Praise
In this prequel to “Anything Short of Murder” and others in the series, Tony Piazza deftly employs three different themes—corruption, greed, and revenge-- to explore Tom Logan’s transition from straight-arrow LA detective to tough-talking PI after he’s ousted from the Department for knowing too much about hi-jinks in high places.
Few authors capture the milieu of 1930 Los Angeles as well as Piazza: Chinatown: art deco buildings, offshore gambling boats, and what’s scarier than a defunct Venice fun house with a full-moon killer on the loose?
Piazza creates scenes that are so cinematic that one expects William Powell and Myrna Loy to walk across the page.
And, of course, because these stories take place before Logan’s wife Rita appears, there’s an ample supply of damsels and dames for Logan to rescue and woo.
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9781546704379 |
| PRICE | $12.00 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Nancy W, Reviewer
Love the 1930s theme of this book. There is a little black book missing and the Syndicate wants it back. The girl who took it is dead but she hide it away and nobody seems to be able to find it. Tom Logan was a cop but now a PI who has been asked to look into his friend's murder. There are dirty cops involved so who can he trust. Then he is trying to protect Meling who everyone thinks knows where the book is. Can he help her? Can he unravel this twisted case to find the answers to find out who killed his friend?
Cassandra H, Educator
Tony Logan is the main character in three stories in this book all set in 1930's Las Angles. The first being the longest and in my opinion, the best. In this first, longer story, Tony just founds out his good friend Red is dead. Killed by the Syndicate. He is contacted to investigate the murder of a prostitute, Emily, who is known to have a "black book" with a list of clients and syndicate members. Tony is being tailed by numerous people, but he does not know whom to trust and along the way, he makes more than one mistake. He meets up with Mie-Ling another prostitute who was friends with Emily and might know the location of the Black Book. If you are a fan of 1930's mysteries, these three stories will be a treat. I am giving this 3.5 stars rounded to 4 stars.
Mary N, Reviewer
1930's, LA, the mob - need I say more? I received a copy from NetGalley and the publisher and this is my honest review. Great 1930's PI mystery set in LA with incredible characters including the mob. What more do you need? Loved the narrative that made me feel as if I was actually at the scene.
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