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Charlie "Doc" Adams Mystery #2
Penny Ferry
The first case is history. That's the famous trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, Boston's pair of immigrant anarchists executed for a murder many still say they never committed.
The second case makes history -- at least for Doc Adams. John Robinson, Doc's handsome, generous friend, has been found dead, his body curiously unmarked. And two of the killer's fingers are discovered lodged in the jaws of Robinson's similarly dispatched guard dog.
Between the seemingly unrelated cases, generations apart, lies a critical and hazardous link that will introduce Doc to the best-kept scandals of Boston's first families and to the Mafia strongholds of the colorful North End.
The second case makes history -- at least for Doc Adams. John Robinson, Doc's handsome, generous friend, has been found dead, his body curiously unmarked. And two of the killer's fingers are discovered lodged in the jaws of Robinson's similarly dispatched guard dog.
Between the seemingly unrelated cases, generations apart, lies a critical and hazardous link that will introduce Doc to the best-kept scandals of Boston's first families and to the Mafia strongholds of the colorful North End.
304 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 1, 1984
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About the author
Rick Boyer
41 books21 followersA pseudonym used by Richard L Boyer.
Series:
* Charlie "Doc" Adams Mystery
Awards:
Edgar Award
◊ Best Novel (1983): Billingsgate Shoal
Series:
* Charlie "Doc" Adams Mystery
Awards:
Edgar Award
◊ Best Novel (1983): Billingsgate Shoal
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July 6, 2022
Rick is an exceptional writer and keeps the reader engaged. I am proud to say that I met him back in the 80s and considered him a friend for many years. He recently passed, but left a legacy of work including this novel which is based in Boston and includes historical references that add to its appeal.
May 30, 2016
#2 in the Doc Adams series.
Doc Adams series - Narrator-sleuth ""Doc"" gets into the act this time when he hires super-courier Johnny Robinson to deliver some expensive dental work. . . which never arrives: Doc and his brother-in-law Joe Brindelli (the food-obsessed cop) go looking for Johnny, who's dead (from lethal gas) in his Lowell, Mass., apartment. Why was the messenger killed? Was it because he was also delivering some secret documents about the Sacco-Vanzetti case? So it seems--especially when the owner of those documents also turns up dead. And the killer seems to be a Mafioso hitman. . . but hired by whom? By Italian-Americans afraid that Sacco and Vanzetti will be proven guilty by those documents? Or by someone who doesn't want their innocence proven? The answer lies in the missing microfilm--which Doc keeps looking for (while being shot at and otherwise roughed up).
Doc Adams series - Narrator-sleuth ""Doc"" gets into the act this time when he hires super-courier Johnny Robinson to deliver some expensive dental work. . . which never arrives: Doc and his brother-in-law Joe Brindelli (the food-obsessed cop) go looking for Johnny, who's dead (from lethal gas) in his Lowell, Mass., apartment. Why was the messenger killed? Was it because he was also delivering some secret documents about the Sacco-Vanzetti case? So it seems--especially when the owner of those documents also turns up dead. And the killer seems to be a Mafioso hitman. . . but hired by whom? By Italian-Americans afraid that Sacco and Vanzetti will be proven guilty by those documents? Or by someone who doesn't want their innocence proven? The answer lies in the missing microfilm--which Doc keeps looking for (while being shot at and otherwise roughed up).
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October 10, 2016
Another great Doc Adams story.
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