'I am a person who would quit authorizing in a minute to go to piloting,' Mark Twain once remarked. 'I would rather sink a steamboat than eat, any time.' And in 1882, Twain did just that: he returned to the river of his youth as a mature writer determined to expand seven articles which he had serial
One Mississippi
β Scribed by Ulfelder, Steve
- Publisher
- OhFive Publishing
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 157 KB
- Series
- Arch Dixon 1
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1733403418
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β¦ Synopsis
"Archer Dixon: 37 years old, Ivy educated, smart, funny -- but he never has amounted to much. Now a rookie private detective in Boston, his first case looks simple at first: a rare Porsche has been stolen from a local businessman. But when Arch starts digging, the case grows tangled. He quickly finds himself in the middle of a gang war between Nigerian car thieves and a savage Russians crew."--Page 4 of cover.
β¦ Subjects
Automobile theft investigation -- Fiction
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