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Author:

Abbott, Victoria.

Title:

The Hammett hex / Victoria Abbott.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Berkley Prime Crime,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

vi, 298 pages ; 18 cm.

Subject:

Book collectors--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Detective and mystery stories.

Summary:

"Jordan has been able to swing a romantic trip to San Francisco with Officer Tyler "Smiley" Dekker on one condition-she must return with a rare copy of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest for her irascible employer, Vera Van Alst. For his own part, Smiley is full of surprises. He's a Dashiell devotee himself-excited to be in the city of Hammett's hard-boiled heroes like Sam Spade and the Continental Op-and also announces he plans to visit his previously unmentioned estranged grandmother, who lives in an old Victorian on Telegraph Hill. But the trip goes downhill fast when Jordan is pushed from a cable car and barely escapes death. And when a dark sedan tries to run the couple down, it's clear someone's after them-but who' Just like in Hammett's world, nothing is quite what is seems..."--Page [4] of cover.

Series:

Book collector mystery
Abbott, Victoria. Book collector mystery.

ISBN:

0425280357
9780425280355

Locations:

BRPD251 -- Adel Public Library (Adel)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

UKPD911 -- Carlisle Public Library (Carlisle)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

DYPD423 -- Eldora Public Library (Eldora)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)

VCPD034 -- Robey Memorial Library-Waukon (Waukon)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)