Write me a Letter

✍ Scribed by Pierce, David M

• Book ID: 107799802
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: German
• Weight: 261 KB
• Series: Vic Daniel 5
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0892964847

✦ Synopsis

CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR DAVID M PIERCE AND ANGELS IN HEAVEN

"Outstanding.... Based on this book, my advice is to grab the previous three and devour them."

-BALTIMORE SUN

"Madcap storytelling and nutso types whose smart mouths run in overdrive... Pierce is a master of off-center characterization and the oddball narrative view." -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"The offbeat humor, nutty characters, and (mostly hapless) V. Daniel may find you hunting up the trio of previous Vic paperbacks."

-KIRKUS REVIEWS

"A genuinely entertaining comedy thriller in which the suspense is never diminished by the omnipresent wit."

-BOOKLIST

"Mr. Pierce has an original voice and he puts a sweet spin on genre conventions."

—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

"An entertaining offbeat series."

- WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

"A wonderful addition to private-eye literature. Witty, literate, and wise."

-TONY HILLERMAN

$18.95 ($22.95 in Canada)

Write me a Letter** '**

The Brits in the Liverpool Daily call "laid back private eye" V. (for Victor) Daniel "two parts Steve Martin to one part Groucho Marx." The Washington Post calls him "something special-even beyond his Hawaiian shirts and six-foot-seven-inch frame ... a great companion-clever, funny and resourceful." And the growing legions of David M Pierce fans know there's no one else even remotely like Vic Daniel in mystery writing on either side of the Atlantic. From his penchant for taking on any case (no problem too petty) to a West Coast wacko staff that includes a larcenous backup named Benny the Boy and a hard rock/poetry-penning Girl Friday Vic is that rarity in the 'tec-trade: fun.

Now he's back in his San Fernando Valley rattrap office, stuck between a weed-and-wino-filled vacant lot and a Vietnamese takeout. The ambiance is early gumshoe, but his client, the gorgeous dame with the baby-blues telling him a sob story, is strictly class. She says she's a friend of a friend, and she has a simple task for Vic: pick up her Uncle Theo at the airport and "baby-sit" him for a while.

Of course, Vic knows she's as full of baloney as she is beautiful even as he scoops up her retainer. She's not who she says she is and he intends to unmask her little white lies just as soon as he traces a skip-a misguided soul who's run away without paying-for a loan shark named Fats. Two small-fry cases? Uh-uh. Big time trouble. Vic will soon be on his way to a Montreal hockey game, the world's best pastrami sandwich, a California town populated entirely by Chinese, a contretemps with the Israeli secret police ... and the morgue. Who is Uncle Theo? What is the real deal behind the skip-trace? Can Vic handle this latest dust-up with the dark side of human nature? Is the pastrami on rye?

David M Pierce has pursued the typical career path of the aspiring private-eye writer-aluminum company slave, furniture salesman, reporter, truck driver, magazine salesman, stage manager, actor, bartender, and hatcheck girl. He has also written lyrics for Alice Cooper, Chad 'n Jeremy, and John Entwhistle and cowrote and acted in the musical comedy Captain Crash vs. the Zorg Women, Parts 5 & 6. He is the author of four previous Vic Daniel mysteries: Angels in Heaven, Roses Love Sunshine, Hear the Wind Blow , Dear , and Down in the Valley. Born in Montreal, DavidM Pierce spent years in London and Los Angeles before settling in Paris.

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