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Fire chief Mac Fontana of Staircase, Washington, hunts a serial arsonist, one of whose fires nearly killed his own son. Suspects range from a man refused a job by the fire department to the son of an actress with whom Fontana is having a romance.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
- Going Crazy in Public
- Original publication date
- 1996
- People/Characters
- Mac Fontana (Fire Chief)
- Important places
- Staircase, Washington, USA
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- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.92)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 2
- ASINs
- 2
