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Quitman O'Neil sells used cars, and he's good at he understands his customers and he understands his life. His motto has always been "Live and let live," but lately he's finding himself in a world where only fools and dead men feel the same way.
The source of all his problems is a coin - not just any old coin, but the 64 D silver dollar. It has existed in collectors' circles only as a rumor, since the whole run was supposed to be melted down before it left the Denver mint. This one survived. With no idea of its worth, Quitman has filched the coin from his lover's desk simply because it was minted in the year of his birth. Now he's paying dearly.
Quitman's idle queries about the coin bring forth the attentions of single-minded collector Henry Lyman and his ruthless hired gun, Lester VanDyk. And then, when one of Quitman's colleagues is killed, the cops come down hard as well. With no one to turn to, the amiable young salesman must reach deep within himself to find the strength and determination to clear his name and escape from a world he never knew existed.
The source of all his problems is a coin - not just any old coin, but the 64 D silver dollar. It has existed in collectors' circles only as a rumor, since the whole run was supposed to be melted down before it left the Denver mint. This one survived. With no idea of its worth, Quitman has filched the coin from his lover's desk simply because it was minted in the year of his birth. Now he's paying dearly.
Quitman's idle queries about the coin bring forth the attentions of single-minded collector Henry Lyman and his ruthless hired gun, Lester VanDyk. And then, when one of Quitman's colleagues is killed, the cops come down hard as well. With no one to turn to, the amiable young salesman must reach deep within himself to find the strength and determination to clear his name and escape from a world he never knew existed.
196 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1995
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February 13, 2012
Crime fiction is not high on my list, but I've read enough of it to have a feel for the genre. I enjoyed this one.
Part of its appeal is the (I think) unusual angle of having the story revolve around coin collecting (a pasttime that briefly captivated me many years ago). I'm not sure everything here is entirely plausible. For example, I can accept a wealthy collector who is sufficiently bored and greedy that he'd be willing to pay for murder in order to add a one-of-a-kind item to his collection, but he'd be a lot more three-dimensional if there were some backstory or greater insight into what makes him think this way. I would expect at least his first attempts to get the coin to be less heavy-handed.
Still, I got into the thinking of the main character, very much enjoyed some of the dialog, and found I could not put down the book (or, rather, the e-reader). Which reminds me of the only other glitch in my particular version, which has nothing to do with the quality of the writing: I think something went awry in the conversion to ebook format that corrupted combinations of the letter l with certain other letters. Thus, on one page "guilty" comes out as "gudty," "little" as "litde," and "smile" as "smde." That would be worth fixing.
All in all, a very entertaining read, and one I'd recommend to others who go for this kind of fiction.
Part of its appeal is the (I think) unusual angle of having the story revolve around coin collecting (a pasttime that briefly captivated me many years ago). I'm not sure everything here is entirely plausible. For example, I can accept a wealthy collector who is sufficiently bored and greedy that he'd be willing to pay for murder in order to add a one-of-a-kind item to his collection, but he'd be a lot more three-dimensional if there were some backstory or greater insight into what makes him think this way. I would expect at least his first attempts to get the coin to be less heavy-handed.
Still, I got into the thinking of the main character, very much enjoyed some of the dialog, and found I could not put down the book (or, rather, the e-reader). Which reminds me of the only other glitch in my particular version, which has nothing to do with the quality of the writing: I think something went awry in the conversion to ebook format that corrupted combinations of the letter l with certain other letters. Thus, on one page "guilty" comes out as "gudty," "little" as "litde," and "smile" as "smde." That would be worth fixing.
All in all, a very entertaining read, and one I'd recommend to others who go for this kind of fiction.
May 1, 2016
Story was good but there were A LOT of typos in the ebook and that detracted from the story for me.
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