Sinners and Shrouds
by Jonathan Latimer
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A reporter becomes his own story when he wakes up next to a corpse. Sam Clay wakes with a dry mouth, a hammering headache, and only the faintest memory of what he did the night before. He remembers dancing, jazz, taxi rides, and a brandy-fueled ride on a roller coaster, but he has no idea how he got home, and he is lost as to the identity of the straw-haired beauty beside him. He is just about to introduce himself when he notices the blood on the sheets, the wounds on her chest, and the show more ice-cold pallor of her skin. His bedmate is dead. Clay is a newspaperman, and sharp enough to know that he is being framed. But by whom? Clay will have to stay two steps ahead of the cops to track down this story, which will lead him either to the scoop of a lifetime or to a long nap in a cold grave. show lessTags
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A later Jonathan Latimer, still hardboiled, still funny, even if not at the level of his four classics about William Crane.
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- Canonical title
- Sinners and Shrouds
- Original title
- Sinners and Shrouds
- Alternate titles*
- Nacht des Grauens
- Original publication date
- 1955
- People/Characters
- Sam Clay
- First words*
- Ein Surren weckte Sam Clay aus tiefem Schlaf.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Ein Ausdruck, der in der Kathedrale zum Heiligen Namen noch nie gebraucht worden war.
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- English US
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