Sleep with Slander
$33.90
- Paperback
245 pages
- Release Date
14 September 2021
Summary
Private eye Jim Sader returns in a hard-hitting thriller set in the dark corners of sunny southern California.
“One of the best hard-boiled private-eye novels ever written.” -Sarah Weinman, The New York Times
“You’re playing with a child’s life”
The search for a kidnapped boy leads private detective (and ex-alcoholic) Jim Sader through a labyrinth of well-hidden family secrets and into the heart of an elaborate and malevolent deception. With little to go on—a tight-lip…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598536980 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598536982 |
| Author: | Dolores Hitchens, Steph Cha |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 245 |
| Release Date: | 14 September 2021 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 130mm |
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“One of the best hard-boiled private-eye novels ever written.” —Sarah Weinman, The New York Times
About The Author
Dolores Hitchens
Dolores Hitchens (1907-1973) was a highly prolific author of novels and a play who wrote under several names, best known for a number of detective series including the Jim Sader novels and the “Cat” novels featuring elderly amateur sleuth Rachel Murdock. She was one of eight pioneers in the genre collected in the 2015 Library of America edition, Women Crime Writers- Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s.
Steph Cha is the author of Your House Will Pay and the Juniper Song crime trilogy. She’s an editor and critic whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. A native of the San Fernando Valley, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two basset hounds.
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