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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 . . .Tags
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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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Common Knowledge
- 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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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 3
- ASINs
- 2
