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The Enemies Within (1974)

by Michael Z. Lewin

Series: Albert Samson (3)

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A playwright needs PI Albert Samson to find a thieving Broadway producer in this "fast, funny and brilliant series" from the Shamus Award-winning author (The Wall Street Journal).   After a Florida vacation spent at the horse races--turning a measly profit of eighty-two cents before expenses--private detective Albert Samson is back in slushy, freezing Indy, where, thankfully, it's a short walk from his living room to his office door. One night, he opens it to find a hesitant stranger in an overcoat. With some prodding from the PI, Bennett Willson admits he wants Samson to strong-arm the Broadway producer who stole his play.   When it turns out that the cleverly crafted story is as bogus as the client himself, Samson blows the lid off a simmering brew of hatred and revenge--leaving his own life hanging in the balance.   Written by a Shamus Award-winning author who "has brains and style," this crime novel follows the beloved midwestern detective in his most bizarre case yet (Los Angeles Times).   The Enemies Within is the 3rd book in the Albert Samson Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.… (more)
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A playwright needs PI Albert Samson to find a thieving Broadway producer in this "fast, funny and brilliant series" from the Shamus Award-winning author (The Wall Street Journal).   After a Florida vacation spent at the horse races--turning a measly profit of eighty-two cents before expenses--private detective Albert Samson is back in slushy, freezing Indy, where, thankfully, it's a short walk from his living room to his office door. One night, he opens it to find a hesitant stranger in an overcoat. With some prodding from the PI, Bennett Willson admits he wants Samson to strong-arm the Broadway producer who stole his play.   When it turns out that the cleverly crafted story is as bogus as the client himself, Samson blows the lid off a simmering brew of hatred and revenge--leaving his own life hanging in the balance.   Written by a Shamus Award-winning author who "has brains and style," this crime novel follows the beloved midwestern detective in his most bizarre case yet (Los Angeles Times).   The Enemies Within is the 3rd book in the Albert Samson Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

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Kirkus Reviews: The third appearance of that Indianapolis private-eye Albert Samson (Ross Macdonald endorses him; the plot also owes him a certain complicated allegiance) when Samson is given little or something a wrong nothing to go on after he is hired by Willson who uses a homosexual cover to check on a missing property -- not the play he's claimed it was but a girl who was in his life and out of it after she had learned Willson was one of her father's bastards. This is hard to keep up with if not follow, but Lewin has tightened and brightened up from book to book and created a detective with a style all his own and lots of it.
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