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Lt. Hastings #5
Long Way Down
Lt. Frank Hastings gets a case that has all the material to create a colorful tableau of murder. Thomas King, film maker, wealthy but profligate, ends up slashed and dead in the apartment of a girl who poses nude by day and sells sex by night. A trail of evidence leads to Arnold Clark. It figures: Clark has a rap sheet a mile-long -- and he's been keeping King's wife company.
Case closed? Not quite. A second murder introduces contradictory new evidence. Now Hastings has to rework the entire puzzle to come up with a finished portrait of a crime -- with no pieces left over.
"Wilcox shuffles the plot and characters for the sheer joy of confounding us. Great detective fun." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)
180 pages, Unknown Binding
First published January 1, 1974
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Collin Wilcox
57 books3 followersAka Carter Wick
Collin Wilcox was an American mystery writer.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, his first book was The Black Door (1967), featuring a sleuth possessing extrasensory perception. His major series of novels was about Lieutenant Frank Hastings of the San Francisco Police Department. Titles in the Hastings series included Hire a Hangman, Dead Aim, Hiding Place, Long Way Down and Stalking Horse. Two of his last books, Full Circle and Find Her a Grave, featured a new hero-sleuth, Alan Bernhardt, an eccentric theater director. Wilcox also published under the pseudonym "Carter Wick".
Wilcox's most famous series-detective was the television character Sam McCloud, a New Mexico deputy solving New York crime. The "urban cowboy" was played by Dennis Weaver in the 1970-1977 TV series McCloud. Wilcox wrote three novelizations based on scripts from the series: McCloud (1973), The New Mexican Connection (1974), and The Park Avenue Executioner (1975).
Collin Wilcox was an American mystery writer.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, his first book was The Black Door (1967), featuring a sleuth possessing extrasensory perception. His major series of novels was about Lieutenant Frank Hastings of the San Francisco Police Department. Titles in the Hastings series included Hire a Hangman, Dead Aim, Hiding Place, Long Way Down and Stalking Horse. Two of his last books, Full Circle and Find Her a Grave, featured a new hero-sleuth, Alan Bernhardt, an eccentric theater director. Wilcox also published under the pseudonym "Carter Wick".
Wilcox's most famous series-detective was the television character Sam McCloud, a New Mexico deputy solving New York crime. The "urban cowboy" was played by Dennis Weaver in the 1970-1977 TV series McCloud. Wilcox wrote three novelizations based on scripts from the series: McCloud (1973), The New Mexican Connection (1974), and The Park Avenue Executioner (1975).
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May 18, 2016
So I was volunteering at a library book sale, which I run, and as I was going through the hardbacks to move to the mystery shelf, I came across this short book written in 1974. I did not realize it was a series and it was interesting to read a book that was so dated by the language, but fun for me as I well remember the 70's. The story takes place in SF and I loved the way the detective was always telling his driver the better way to go. I hate driving in San Francisco!! This is probably a difficult book to find and I have never seen any others by this author. Ahh the serendipity of a library book sale!!
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