Mexico Is Forever/a Leo Haggerty Mystery - Hardcover

Schutz, Benjamin M.

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9780312105020: Mexico Is Forever/a Leo Haggerty Mystery

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312105029 ISBN 13: 9780312105020

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1994

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Washington, D.C. private eye Leo Haggerty's routine investigation into checking out an identity leads him into the world of pornography and high-level political intrigue

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From Kirkus Reviews:

Despite the absence of his longtime lover, Samantha, Washington, D.C., shamus Leo Haggerty (A Fistful of Empty, 1991, etc.) remains as active as ever: Here he manages to wring three cases out of one woman. First he's hired to do a background check on Sarabeth Timmons, claimant to a $630,000 estate. No sooner has he proved that she's not really Sarabeth Timmons than Ellen Piersall, the lover who's taken her in, hires him to find out who she really is. No problem there either: She's an LA porn star named Fantasia, n‚e Darla Jean Ferguson. That's news enough for Ellen, who drops both the case and Darla Jean with a yowl. But when an investigator for the DA's office in LA comes blundering into Leo's office with a cock-and-bull story about needing to extradite Darla Jean as an informant who skipped town, Leo goes after Darla Jean himself, hiring himself out to her (hey, who's left?) as the guy who'll shield her from danger while he's figuring out why she was framed in a drug bust and what she might know about a former porn colleague that could make the LA law come after her with guns drawn. Fast, mean, and twisty, with all the usual violence saved for dessert: a perfect case for Leo's manic style. -- Copyright �1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Publishers Weekly:

Readers of Schutz's ( A Fistful of Empty ) sixth procedural starring D.C. investigator Leo Haggerty will be fascinated to watch the savvy PI wield "the most dangerous tool in the world, the telephone." Starting with a few meager facts about beautiful, elusive Sarabeth Timmons--who may or may not be heir to a sizable sum--the methodical Haggerty and his staff uncover increasingly bizarre intelligence leading to a powerful Hollywood VIP, corrupt law enforcers, porn-film producers and murder. Fortunately for Haggerty, his many trustworthy friends are happy to extend helping hands as he sinks deeper into this moral morass. And just when talkiness threatens to overwhelm, the author tosses in two brief but blockbusting action scenes and one steamy instance of coitus interruptus. An open-ended hero-tied-to-the-railroad-tracks finale should leave readers impatient for Haggerty's next outing. Haggerty starred in "Mary, Mary, Shut the Door," Schutz's 1993 Edgar-winning short story.
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