Robert Skinner, Author . Poisoned Pen $23.95 (227p) ISBN 978-1-890208-66-0
Gangsters are murdering each other throughout the town and over in the parishes in this entertaining retro hard-boiled novel set in New Orleans, September 1940, fifth in the series featuring nightclub owner Wesley Farrell. Farrell's old partner-i
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Robert Skinner, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (275p) ISBN 978-1-59058-029-5
In his fifth literate, intelligent, if overly busy WWII-era noir to feature Creole nightclub owner and part-time dick Wesley Farrell (after 2001's Pale Shadow), Skinner has included enough characters to stage Aida
and enough plot twists to give
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Robert Skinner, Author Poisoned Pen Press $23.95 (251p) ISBN 978-1-890208-33-2
Bootlegger-turned-nightclub owner Wesley Farrell is back for a fourth round (after Daddy's Gone A-Hunting) in this hard-boiled tale full of 1930s New Orleans period flavor. During Prohibition, Farrell was riding in a car with George Schofield, a...
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Robert Skinner, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $19.95 (247p) ISBN 978-1-57566-092-9
There's a pleasantly old-fashioned B-movie feeling to Skinner's first novel, set in a 1936 New Orleans so obviously well-researched that when a character drives down Magazine Street and turns on to Pleasant, ""a working-class neighborhood composed...
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Robert Skinner, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $22 (288p) ISBN 978-1-57566-376-0
Skinner's (Cat-Eyed Trouble) series hero, nightclub owner Wesley Farrell, back for his third outing in the New Orleans of the late 1930s, is still passing as white and disguising his Creole heritage. His girlfriend, Savanna, has lit out for Los...
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