Ask the Right Question - Softcover

Lewin, Michael Z.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446400211 ISBN 13: 9780446400213

Publisher: Mysterious Pr, 1991

Synopsis

Meet Albert Samson - a detective in the tradition of Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade, Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe and Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer. But Samson's no hard-boiled clone. For one thing, he doesn't even own a gun. For another, he works in Indianapolis, the apparently unglamorous Midwestern city where he grew up. But the city and its problems are not the stuff of stereotypes. And Samson uses his wits and his contacts to solve his clients' problems and make something of a living. Here, in his first fictional outing - nominated for an Edgar - he has the most unusual client in his history, a sixteen-year-old school girl. She wants him to find out where her biological father is. At home with your biological mother? Samson suggests, unable to take the kid seriously. But the girl is certain. Her 'father' cannot be her father: she can prove it. And things soon get seriously complicated.

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Review

The best private eye story since Ross Macdonald's last (Books and Bookmen)

Fascinates throughout, and frequently amuses as well . . . very assured and satisfying indeed (Edmund Crispin The Sunday Times)

Brightly written with some crackling dialogue (Maurice Richardson Observer)

Michael Z. Lewin is an intelligent practitioner in the Raymond Chandler tradition (Daily Telegraph)

Book Description

The first book in the Albert Samson series

Edition details

• Publisher: Mysterious Pr
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0446400211
• ISBN 13: 9780446400213
• Binding: Paperback