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When a female fire fighter is harassed by her peers for surviving a Seattle fire where her three male colleagues died, Fire Chief Mac Fontana works to clear her name and discover the secrets behind the suspicious blaze.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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- Canonical title
- Morons and Madmen
- Original publication date
- 1993
- People/Characters
- Mac Fontana
- Important places
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- First words
- You think you have the best job on earth until Creed's boot drops out of the sky.
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- 86
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- (4.09)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 2
- ASINs
- 3
