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Bezig met laden... Dead Low Tide (origineel 1953; editie 2014)door John D. MacDonald
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A non Travis McGee MacDonald... but still Florida. Fellow (McClintock) is mixed up in a kind of a trailer park kind of place with another big boned blonde girl that seems to get killed (but gets brought up later all well later). Features an especially amoral weirdo who cuts up the money he has blackmailed for into odd shapes. Rather banal happy ending... (marriage to the blonde!) ... that is not up to McGee standards. ( ) After writing a few average SF short stories and novels MacDonald turned to Thrillers and never looked back. Thank God for John D. MacDonald. If ever a writer had his finger on the pulse of the human animal it is him. This was not his best 1950s thriller but it has glimpses of the greatness to come. Andrew McClintock works for a very wealthy man with a very sexy wife who asks him to see if he can find out what is bothering her husband. When the husband is murdered, Andrew is suspected of the crime because he was just made a partner in the development project they were working on in Florida. When Andrews girlfriend, Christy, is found drowned in the bay, he is released. He is searching for who killed his boss and his girlfriend when he finds his boss's wife dead. Again he is a suspect but when his girlfriend turns up alive and points the finger at the real killer, he off the hook again. When the killer escapes custody, he must once more track down the villain and put him away to protect his girlfriend. Fast paced detective yarn that was difficult to put down. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Dead Low Tide is an iconic early thriller from John D. MacDonald, the mastermind behind Cape Fear and the Travis McGee novels. On the coast of Florida, a working stiff is wrongfully accused of murdering his boss--and must outwit one of MacDonald's signature villains to save his life. A college graduate and amateur fisherman, Andy McClintock is stuck toiling in the office of a construction company. But when Andy tries to quit, his boss offers him a promotion and a raise--and then promptly kills himself with a harpoon gun. At least, that's what it looks like, until the police rule it homicide--with the murder weapon belonging to Andy. The harpoon gun had been stolen out of Andy's garage, and the boss's wife makes the outrageous claim that she and Andy were having an affair. He's been set up. To clear his name, he'll have to find the real killer. But Andy soon discovers that he's up against more than a two-bit thief--he's been targeted by absolute evil, a monster with no compassion for his fellow man." --Page 4 of cover. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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