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The Daedalus Deception
A new thriller from Derringer and Thriller Award Winner Richard Helms!Imagine returning home from a business trip to find that your agoraphobic wife has disappeared, along with every trace of evidence that you had been married, or that she had even existed. David Proctor, believing his wife Barbara has been abducted, frantically seeks help from the police, but they reject his claims, suspecting that he is trying to run some kind of scam. Desperate for help, Proctor turns to Savannah private eye Hollis Dayton. Suspecting that Barbara Proctor might have been conning David all along, Hollis Dayton launches an investigation, and uncovers a stunning web of false identities, deceit, fraud, and murder. Worse, the deeper they delve into the disappearance of David Proctor's wife, the more convinced they becomes that Barbara might have vanished because of her involvement in a horrifying terrorist plot which has the potential to make the attacks of 9/11 pale in comparison!With just hours left before a disaster of unimaginable proportions, Hollis and David dash across country in a last-ditch effort to avert The Daedalus Deception!
436 pages, Paperback
First published November 26, 2010
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Richard Helms
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aka Eric Shane and Noah Roarke
Three-Time PWA Shamus Award Nominee. Author of the Pat Gallegher series set in New Orleans, and the Eamon Gold series set in San Francisco. Editor and publisher of The Back Alley, a webzine featuring hardboiled and noir fiction for a new century.
On May 2, 2008, he became the only author ever to win TWO Short Mystery Fiction Society Derringer Awards in the same year, for THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO GORDON BLACK, which was published under his own name in Kevin Burton Smith's Thrilling Detective Website, and for PAPER WALLS/GLASS HOUSES, which was published under his pseudonym Eric Shane in his own Back Alley Webzine. It's been a big year!
Series:
* Pat Gallegher
* Eamon Gold
* Judd Wheeler
aka Eric Shane and Noah Roarke
Three-Time PWA Shamus Award Nominee. Author of the Pat Gallegher series set in New Orleans, and the Eamon Gold series set in San Francisco. Editor and publisher of The Back Alley, a webzine featuring hardboiled and noir fiction for a new century.
On May 2, 2008, he became the only author ever to win TWO Short Mystery Fiction Society Derringer Awards in the same year, for THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO GORDON BLACK, which was published under his own name in Kevin Burton Smith's Thrilling Detective Website, and for PAPER WALLS/GLASS HOUSES, which was published under his pseudonym Eric Shane in his own Back Alley Webzine. It's been a big year!
Series:
* Pat Gallegher
* Eamon Gold
* Judd Wheeler
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March 28, 2011
David Proctor is an ordinary guy leading a comfortable ordinary life--high paying job, beautiful wife, nice house in Savannah, GA. Then he comes home from a business trip to find his wife Barbara gone, along with all traces that she ever existed. Dismissed by the police, he hires Hollis Dayton, a no-nonsense female private dectective to find Barbara.
Needless to say Barbara was not at all what she appeared to be. As Proctor and Dayton try to track her down, they find she was mixed up with some very dangerous people, the kind who have a way of elminating people who ask too many questions.
Helms keeps the suspense at a high level, keeping you guessing until the end.
Needless to say Barbara was not at all what she appeared to be. As Proctor and Dayton try to track her down, they find she was mixed up with some very dangerous people, the kind who have a way of elminating people who ask too many questions.
Helms keeps the suspense at a high level, keeping you guessing until the end.
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