β Scribed by Michael Raleigh
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A Chicago PI hunts for a missing kid who fell in with the wrong crowd: "Raleigh presents a genuine good guy in the luckless Whelan" (Publishers Weekly).
An elderly woman has asked private investigator Paul Whelan to look into the disappearance of Tony Blanchardβa young man she'd taken in after his parents died. Instead, Whelan discovers a string of murders, all tied to a car-theft ring.
All the evidence suggests that Tony is dead as well, but Whelan keeps digging until he finds himself surrounded by a dangerous maze of silent witnesses, crooked cops, and people willing to kill to keep the truth from surfacing. When a friend from Whelan's past emergesβa friend Whelan thought long deadβhis investigation takes a dangerous turn: one that brings him no closer to Tony, and a lot closer to his own demise.
"Raleigh's Paul Whelan series brings to mind the late Ross McDonald's Lew Archer novels . . . Read Whelan now;...
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