Fire at will
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1950 - Published for the Crime Club, Doubleday, & Company, Inc., Garden City, N.Y, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
54,250 words, Guess
Page Count
217 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivefireatwill00disn
- LibraryThing2314431
- Library of Congress Control Number50007588
- OCLC Control Number1711860
- Open LibraryOL6069281M
Classifications
- LCCPZ3.D626 Fi
- LCCPS3507.I75 Fi
Description
"Hampton County detective member of firing squad at military funeral where elderly lady was accidentally shot." This was the nightmare headline Jim O'Neill envisioned for the next day's newspaper after the unfortunate woman's demise. It was a mighty embarrassing situation. Jim tackled the case with understandable zeal, but a series of humorous domestic complications hampered him somewhat. Then past events in the Ellery family history made the case even tougher—a suicide that happened years ago, a still talked-of elopement and an unsolved family mystery. Even the lethal weapon in the case was hard to determine, since the guns involved ranged from rifles, Lugers and Berettas to a small water pistol. Brilliant deduction on Jim's part retrieved the case from its inauspicious beginning, uncovered a startling secret, and exposed a murderer. *Fire at Will* is a shrewd picture of the devastating effects of murder in a small town.
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