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From the Edgar Award-winning author of the Hap and Leonard series, a hard-boiled novel set in 1960s Texas in which a no-nonsense car salesman faces a tempting decision, a dangerous deal, and an alluring affair. Ed Edwards is in the used car business, a business built on adjusted odometers...

It's the early 1950s. Ju McCarthy is campaigning to rid America of the Red Menace. Nate Heller is doing legwork for the senator, though the Chicago detective is disheartened by McCarthy's witch-hunting tactics. He's made friends with a young staffer, Bobby Kennedy, while trading barbs with a potential enemy, the attorney Roy Cohn, who rubs Heller the wrong way. Not the least of which for successfully prosecuting the so-called Atomic Bomb spies, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

It’s 9:10 PM in the Chatham County Communications Center. The dispatchers stare at each other, afraid to move, afraid to breathe. One minute to go. Will tonight be the night? The clock on the wall changes. 9:11. A phone rings. The screens indicate the 911 call is coming from a blocked number. The dispatchers hope and pray it’s a coincidental call for service. Perhaps, a car break-in or a bar fight. With all eyes on her, one dispatcher presses a button, puts the call on speaker for everyone to hear.

One wild weekend in Vegas, Samantha True and her boyfriend impulsively marry. Six months later, she learns three things about her new husband: 1. He’s been killed in a freak accident. 2. She’s inherited his secret PI business. 3. He had another wife. Broke and devastated, she dives into learning the PI busines. How hard can it be? Following a binge-watching how-to session on YouTube, Samantha’s ready to take her first case.

She's gone. Vanished from a city slicked with artificial gloss, but rotten to the core. Where silence and deceit are bought and sold like just another commodity. A burned out investigator, tormented by ghosts, stumbles into this mess. Big money, big power, big muscle, all hiding an ugly game. What he digs up isn't just a missing person. He's ripping the lid off a city built on lies. Exposing the decay, and the darkness lurking underneath. Life as a private investigator was supposed to be easier than being a cop, but for Elias Gentry, it was anything but.

Die Sherlock Holmes Hörspiel Box 11 beinhaltet die Geschichten: "Der verschwundene Kutscher", "Das Haus mit den Zwingern", "Eine Frage des Teers", "Die dritte Botschaft".