The Hastened to the Grave: The Gypsy Murder Investigation - Hardcover
A series of bizarre deaths in the San Francisco area in 1994 is chronicled through the eyes of a flamboyant private investigator hired to find the killer of these elderly, well-to-do victims, a suspect believed to be a member of a gypsy family.
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Jack Olsen's Hastened to the Grave: The Gypsy Murder Investigation features a delightful hero: a female private investigator who calls herself "Rat Dog Dick." Rat Dog relies on an ancient Everex 286 computer (Evil Evie), a Toyota Tercel (The Frog Prince) that is so outrageously green it's useless for surveillance, and a big, funny-looking dog (Beans). She is probably the best skip tracer (someone who finds people) in San Francisco. Once she gets her teeth into the "Foxglove" case--several old people who dwindle and die quickly after being "befriended" by a local Gypsy family--the fact that she has no client to pay her for her work is just not an issue. The police are ignoring clear evidence of elder abuse, and Rat Dog is outraged. We follow every step of her adventures as she learns a whole lot about Gypsies and turns into a fierce advocate for the elderly.
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Jack Olsen's prose style is supple and engaging, with funny dialogue and colorful characters worthy of an Elmore Leonard novel. His observations about people (especially women) are priceless, and his account of Gypsy crime and police negligence is balanced and thought-provoking. Hastened to the Grave is a true crime classic by a master at the top of his form. --Fiona Webster
"A jaw-dropping true account." --The New York Times Book Review
"Jack Olsen's particular gift is the ability to illuminate the souls of his characters." --Jonathan Kellerman
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- PublisherSt. Martins Press-3PL
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0312183623
- ISBN 13 9780312183622
- BindingHardcover
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The bestselling author of Son and Doc investigates a chilling series of alleged murders that exposes the sinister underworld of Gypsy culture in AmericaIn June of 1994, the Oakland Tribune cracked a story of a string of bizarre deaths in the San Francisco area. The victims were elderly, well-to-do and, in each case, had been befriended by members of an extended Gypsy family -- the Tene Bimbos.Fay Faron, also known as Rat Dog Dick, a dynamic and unconventional private investigator in the Bay Area, was contacted by a lawyer to investigate the strange accusations of an elderly widow who claimed she was being swindled out of her hilltop mansion by a young man named Danny Tene. Within days, the widow was dead and Danny Tene stood to inherit a fortune. Olsen chronicles Faron's hunt for Danny Tene, his mother Mary Steiner, and his beautiful sister Angela -- a family of suspected con artists who may have been responsible for the deaths of as many as five helpless elderly men and women, whose property -- and possibly whose lives -- the family allegedly stole. Chronicles the investigation of a series of bizarre deaths of elderly well-to-do people in the San Francisco area, in which the suspect is believed to be a member of a gypsy family. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780312183622
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