Yellow Dog Party

by Earl Emerson

Thomas Black (6)

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Four successful businessmen want Thomas Black to track down the four women they've had secret crushes on for years and set up "dream dates" with them. But Black, on the trail of the first dreamgirl, finds a woman battered into a coma instead. And then a double murder and the disappearance of another dreamgirl make Black realize how quickly dreams can turn into deadly nightmares . . .

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Earl Emerson was born July 8, 1948 in Tacoma, Washington. He is the author of the very popular Mac Fontana series as well as the Thomas Black detective series. He won the Shamus Award in 1985 for Poverty Bay, his second novel in the Thomas Black series. He was again nominated for a Shamus for his novel The Vanishing Smile in 1996 (another in the show more Thomas Black series). Emerson's writing is described as vivid with witty dialog and complex but impeccably credible plots. Emerson remains a lieutenant with the Seattle Fire Department (his Mac Fontana character is a small town fire chief) and lives in North Bend, Washington. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
Yellow Dog Party
Original publication date
1991
People/Characters
Thomas Black; Kathy Birchfield; Jo Schwantz; Floyd Boyd; Rex Ronquist; Jimmy Canfield (show all 8); Denny McCallum; Rhoda Lastusky
Important places
Myrtle Creek, Oregon, USA; Seattle, Washington, USA
Epigraph
"I guess somebody lost a dream." (Raymond Chandler, "The Little Sister"
Dedication
For my brother, Stephen Paul Emerson, 1951-1968
First words
It was raining when they rolled me out of the big Lincoln and into the ditch.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"I can wait."

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, Mystery
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
LCC
PS3555 .M39 .Y45Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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