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Skinner, Robert Blood to Drink - 4th Wesley Farrell Bk in series
Poisoned Pen Press, 2000 2000 1890208337 / 9781890208332 First Edition Original Wraps Fine Galley/Proof
Fine. First Edition. Galley/Proof. ISBN:1-890208-33-7. Spiral bound galley.Press release enclosed.DJ Copy - During Prohibition, the Mississippi flowed with contraband. Rumrunners could make fortunes in New Orleans. Some got away with murder. Wesley Farrell, half-caste son of an Irish policeman, is no stranger to violence and death, but he's deeply affected when a bright young Federal agent is gunned down right in front of him. A few years later, a new act opens and Farrell, conscious of his debt to the dead man who had saved his life just before he died, elects to play a role. His investigation not only opens up some well kept secrets, it carries his own role with his father in new directions.... Atmospheric, faithful to its period, Robert Skinner's fourth Wesley Farrell novel is not just a suspenseful whodunit, but an exploration of family and of loss.
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Skinner, Robert Daddy's Gone A-Hunting : A Wesley Farrell Novel
Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A. Poisoned Pen Press 2000 1890208442 / 9781890208448 First Thus Trade Paperback As New
as new wrasper copy - Robert Skinner has written three books in a series that takes place during the Depression in New Orleans. He selected the Depression because of stories family members told him about living during that time and how it affected them. To him, "the '30s represent America's last romantic age.' Even so he is cognizant of how difficult this time period was for those at the low end of the economic spectrum. Because his books are hard-boiled, protagonist Wesley Farrell had to be an outsider. So Skinner made Farrell a black man passing for white, something that was unacceptable in New Orleans at the time. In the first book of the series, SKIN DEEP, BLOOD RED, the reader learns about his deception in the denouement. But Farrell continues to hide his race from almost everyone. He wants to help other blacks, but he also fears losing everything he has. Farrell is a gambler and bon vivant. He gets involved in a very complex series of problems partly because he is depressed. Savanna Bealieu, the woman he would like to love, has left for California, and Farrell goes looking for trouble to put her out of his mind. He lives on the "borderland between the respectable and the criminal.' He responds to cries for help but there is violence at the core of his soul and he is ambivalent about his race. Outwardly comfortable in both the black and white worlds, he is, in reality, uncertain about where he wants to be. He dreams of marrying Savanna, but knows he would lose everything if he did. So the violence of New Orleans suits him just fine. First a prominent black businessman is murdered and then a man who has served 10 years in prison for armed robbery returns to town. The situation grows more complicated as another black businessman disappears and the black owner of a club asks Farrell to help him fend off a gangster who wants to take it over. There are several subplots in this book which all come together in an electrifying climax.
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