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Ike Mars: Bloody Key
DEAD MAN'S KEY
Pittsburg private eye Ike Mars was struck by lightning twice. Now he can change his face to look like anybody else—an enviable talent for any investigator. When a small time hood dies in Mars’ arms, after having been shot, he leaves Mars with a small, key covered in blood. The street-smart shamus safely assumes the man was killed by people after that key. So, the question is why is it so important as to be worth a man’s life? What mystery does it unlock and how much danger is Mars in now that he possesses it? Once again, pulp scribe Fred Adams, Jr. launches another thrilling mystery series with this novel starring one of the most unique characters ever to walk the midnight streets of crime novels.
Pittsburg private eye Ike Mars was struck by lightning twice. Now he can change his face to look like anybody else—an enviable talent for any investigator. When a small time hood dies in Mars’ arms, after having been shot, he leaves Mars with a small, key covered in blood. The street-smart shamus safely assumes the man was killed by people after that key. So, the question is why is it so important as to be worth a man’s life? What mystery does it unlock and how much danger is Mars in now that he possesses it? Once again, pulp scribe Fred Adams, Jr. launches another thrilling mystery series with this novel starring one of the most unique characters ever to walk the midnight streets of crime novels.
132 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 4, 2019
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Fred Adams Jr.
44 books9 followersFred Adams, Jr. ("Dr. Phreddee") has been a published author since 1971 when he began selling fiction to magazines and non-fiction pieces to newspapers. Since his retirement from Penn State University's English faculty, he has written eighteen novels, two nonfiction books, and over twenty commissioned novellas and short stories for anthologies.
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