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Drop Dead, My Lovely

(2004)
(The first book in the Pete Ingalls series)
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A one-time mild-mannered bookstore clerk transformed into a hard-boiled private detective thanks to a head injury, Pete Ingalls decides to open up his own detective agency, taking Raymond Chandler as his model, and finds himself on the trail of a variety of shady characters, dealing with damsels in distress, and tracking a killer, with only his delusion to sustain him. Reprint.


Genre: Mystery

Praise for this book

"Drop Dead, My Lovely is smart, ironic, and Candleresque. Three out of three is very good." - Robert B Parker


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