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02028aam a2200337 i 4500 001 87D3DEDC383D11EFA74ADF9234ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240702013519 008 240314t20232023xxk ed 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1448310369 020 $a 9781448310364 035 $a (OCoLC)1426341634 040 $a NZWHC $b eng $e rda $c NZWHC $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d GP5 $d IWP $d SILO 100 1 $a Jecks, Michael. 245 10 $a Portrait of a murder [large print] / $c Michael Jecks. 250 $a First large print edition. 264 1 $a Edinburgh : $b Severn House, $c 2023. 300 $a 344 pages (large print) pages ; $c 23 cm 340 $n large print $2 rdafs 520 $a Nick Morris is your classic struggling artist. He paints pet portraits to pay the bills but is always just one big commission away from a more comfortable life. Which is why he agrees to paint the reluctant, hot-tempered hotelier, Jason Robart. But Nick gets more than he bargained for when he finds Jason dead from a shotgun blast to the head in an apparent suicide. No one seems upset about his death except for his girlfriend Elizabeth, and Nick, who has lost the income from the commission. It turns out Jason owed money to everyone --- including some unsavoury Russians. When Elizabeth goes missing, Nick is concerned, but so is Jason's unpleasant business partner and those persuasive Russians who threaten Nick to reveal everything he knows...or else. Nick is knee deep in trouble and to escape he must find Elizabeth, uncover the truth of Jason's death, and stay alive! If only he had stuck to painting cats...-- $c Publisher's description. 650 0 $a Painters $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Large type books. 650 0 $a Hotelkeepers $x Fiction. $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Missing persons $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Artists $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Murder $x Fiction. $x Fiction. 941 $a 1 945 $a lpt 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240702025631.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=87D3DEDC383D11EFA74ADF9234ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search