NO GO ON JACKSON STREET (Ben Henry Mystery) - Softcover

Weiss, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449215504 ISBN 13: 9780449215500

Publisher: Fawcett Crest, 1989

Synopsis

When his friend is framed for the murder of a famous columnist, ex-newspaper man Ben Henry becomes involved in a world where sex, drugs, and money are taken for granted

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Edgar-winning nonfiction author Weiss (Double Playp, makes a snappy fiction debut here. Ben Henry, 40-ish ex-reporter and San Francisco cabdriver is asked for help by Yollo, foster son of Ben's best friend. It seems someone has set the young man up to take the rap for the murder of San Francisco's top columnist. Yollo, an outlandishly fey drug dealer, isn't one of Ben's favorite people, but the former newspaperman is intrigued by the murder and begins sleuthing. Ben sees Yollo shot to death and soon becomes embroiled in a tangled web of murder, drugs, hidden family ties and multigenerational revenge. The colorful characters include the columnist's beautiful daughter, a powerful and malevolent newspaper publisher and his gay son. The solution won't surprise veteran mystery readers, but Weiss keeps things moving, and Ben Henry is nicely hard-boiled without being trite. Especially refreshing is his affectionately skeptical view of San Francisco: "More like Cincinnati than it could ever admit to itself, a vain little popinjay of a town that called itself everybody's favorite."
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About this edition

• Publisher: Fawcett Crest
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0449215504
• ISBN 13: 9780449215500
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 185