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Robert Westland's date with the executioner is just around the corner when he finally decides to fight the murder rap sending him to the electric chair. Framed for his wife's grisly demise, Westland is in a bind, and his last hope is Bill Crane, a booze-soaked detective who's as ruthless with a quip as he is when trawling the streets for Chicago's most brutal criminal element. Crane's got just six days to suss out the real killer-he sets his sights on a cast of oddball characters, aided by a show more lime squeezer, a quart of whiskey, a monkey wrench, a taxicab, a stopwatch, and a deep sea diver but in 1930s Chicago, everyone's got a secret, and the pressure is on for Crane to separate the dangerous from the truly homicidal before it's too late. Chicago crime beat journalist-turned-novelist Jonathan Latimer blends hardboiled detective fiction with a shot of screwball comedy in the fast-moving, realistic 1935 baffler Headed for a Hearse, an exciting combination of the macabre and the humorous. Includes discussion guide questions for use in book clubs. show lessTags
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Good twists & turns, true to its 1930s era pacing, enjoyable who done it
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Jännityksen mestarit (25)
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Doubleday Crime Club (1935.21)
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- Canonical title
- Headed for a Hearse
- Original title
- Headed for a Hearse
- Original publication date
- 1935
- People/Characters
- William Crane
- Related movies
- The Westland Case (1937 | IMDb)
- Original language
- English US
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- Languages
- English, Finnish, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 10
- ASINs
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