No go on Jackson Street: A Ben Henry mystery - Hardcover

Weiss, Mike

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684188104 ISBN 13: 9780684188102

Publisher: Scribner, 1987

Synopsis

Stated First Edition. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Dust soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block. The author's first mystery.

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: Scribner
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0684188104
• ISBN 13: 9780684188102
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 221