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The Haight Mystery #5
The Flaming Turret
No one could convince Lieut. Jimmy Spracklin that the fire in his Haight-Ashbury boarding house started by accident. The blaze that killed his hippie landlord broke out four days before Spracklin was due to appear as the key witness in a federal murder trial. Someone had obviously set the fire to silence Spracklin before he could help the federal prosecutors send Andy Fox to Death Row.
In The Flaming Turret, Jimmy Spracklin employs the cunning and toughness he displayed in the first four novels of The Haight Mystery Series to find the arsonist and avenge his dead friend. But when problems arise in the Fox case, Spracklin is left worrying that he may not be with the SFPD long enough to find the torch. Set in 1960s San Francisco, The Haight Mystery Series has developed a loyal following among readers who love a good mystery and want to revisit the heyday of the hippies.
In The Flaming Turret, Jimmy Spracklin employs the cunning and toughness he displayed in the first four novels of The Haight Mystery Series to find the arsonist and avenge his dead friend. But when problems arise in the Fox case, Spracklin is left worrying that he may not be with the SFPD long enough to find the torch. Set in 1960s San Francisco, The Haight Mystery Series has developed a loyal following among readers who love a good mystery and want to revisit the heyday of the hippies.
415 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 20, 2024
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About the author
Peter Moreira
21 books25 followersPeter Moreira is the author of The Haight Crime Series, in which Lieut. Jimmy Spracklin investigates crimes in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district in the late 1960s.
The series is the result of Peter’s love affair with Haight-Ashbury, which began when he hitchhiked twice to San Francisco from Vancouver in 1981. He adored the history, the friendly people, the romance of the setting. Throughout his career in journalism – which included postings in Ottawa, Hong Kong, Seoul and London – he kept mulling over the idea of a mystery set in Haight-Ashbury. He wanted to produce what he called a whodunnit with hippies.
As an author, Peter began with non-fiction, starting with Hemingway on the China Front in 2006. After a few non-fiction titles, The Haight was published in 2017 and The Haight Mystery Series was launched. Today it comprises several acclaimed novels, and Peter is always at work on the next one.
The series is the result of Peter’s love affair with Haight-Ashbury, which began when he hitchhiked twice to San Francisco from Vancouver in 1981. He adored the history, the friendly people, the romance of the setting. Throughout his career in journalism – which included postings in Ottawa, Hong Kong, Seoul and London – he kept mulling over the idea of a mystery set in Haight-Ashbury. He wanted to produce what he called a whodunnit with hippies.
As an author, Peter began with non-fiction, starting with Hemingway on the China Front in 2006. After a few non-fiction titles, The Haight was published in 2017 and The Haight Mystery Series was launched. Today it comprises several acclaimed novels, and Peter is always at work on the next one.
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