Seeing the Elephant (A Thomas Dunne Book) (A Saxon Mystery) - Hardcover

Roberts, Les

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9780312070816: Seeing the Elephant (A Thomas Dunne Book) (A Saxon Mystery)

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ISBN 10: 0312070810 ISBN 13: 9780312070816

Publisher: St. Martins Press, 1992

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The death of a boyhood chum sends actor-private eye Saxon back to his hometown of Chicago to find out the truth behind his pal's demise. By the author of Deep Shaker.

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About the Author:

Les Roberts, the award winning Private Eye Writer, continues the series of 'Saxon' mysteries in this adventure set in Hollywood but extending south of the border. Screen actor Saxon, moonlighting as a detective, gets a double-edged offer from a hot-shot producer, which leads to unexpected consequences. This finely tuned novel cements Roberts' standing as one of the best new mystery writers today.

Readers who have met the clear-eyed, hard-hitting, and ruefully humorous actor/sleuth in Les Roberts' award-winning An Infinite Number of Monkeys and Not Enough Horses will welcome this new adventure; newcomers to Saxon and his world have a happy surprise ahead.

Between engagements, actors wait tables, clerk in department stores, sell encyclopedias, even teach school. But screen actor Saxon is unique: he moon-lights as a private eye. Or maybe it's the other way around...

From Kirkus Reviews:

L.A. actor/sleuth Saxon (Snake Oil, etc.) flies to Chicago, his hometown, to attend the funeral of Gavin Cassidy, a cop who moonlighted as an actor and was Saxon's mentor at the North State Street Theatre Guild. There, Gavin's former girlfriend Marian asks Saxon to investigate: Even at his alcoholic worst, she says, Gavin would never have also swallowed the amphetamines that killed him. As Saxon looks up their old gang, he quickly learns that Cassidy was recently suspended for soliciting bribes--from Saxon's own father, a political stalwart of the Fifty-fourth Ward who once went to prison for the party machine and who hasn't spoken to his son in over 20 years. Soon, Saxon and his dad are edgily making contact, and it seems that more political chicanery was at work, setting up Cassidy as the patsy to the benefit of former Guild members and the Ward. Before Saxon can return to L.A. and his adopted, black teenaged son Marvel, he must confront both his and Cassidy's past lovers (sometimes one and the same) to find the killer. Facile but oddly touching in the father-son rapprochement scenes. A semi-hardboiled trip down memory lane, then, guided by a capable old pro. -- Copyright �1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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