Fear of the Dark (Aaron Gunner Mystery) - Softcover

Haywood, Gar Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140131531 ISBN 13: 9780140131536

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1990

Synopsis

Aaron Gunner, an ex-private detective, is drawn back into the business when a Black revolutionary is shot by a white racist and the local police seem uninterested in finding the killer

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Winner of the 1988 Best First P.I. Novel Contest, this promising debut introduces black private investigator Aaron Gunner, hired to find the white man who walked into the Acey Deuce bar in South Central Los Angeles to blow away the owner, J. T. Tennell and Buddy Dorris of the Brothers of Volition, a black activist group. Buddy's sister, Verna Gail, feels the murder isn't getting enough police attention and hires Gunner, a P.I. who's trying to quit the business. He discovers that the killer is Denny Townsend, a white supremacist working on the fringes of a campaign to elect Lew Henshaw, a politician running on a law-and-order platform. Before Gunner can talk to Townsend, he finds himshot to death in Gunner's car. The cops are suspicious of Gunner, who soon is framed for the killing of Townsend's friend and possible accomplice, Stanley Ferris. To save his own neck, and to keep L.A. from erupting into racial violence, Gunner must find the connection between the politician, a local drug dealer and the Brother's charismatic leader, Roland Mayes. Haywood has a good ear for the sour voice of the true private eye and the sense of tired hopelessness of the underclass they have always served. One hopes to see more of Gunner.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140131531
• ISBN 13: 9780140131536
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192