By Mark Loeffelholz
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WELCOME TO MIAMI BEACH - 1941
"...You need to get all these stupid ideas out of your head, about how you're gonna be tough guys, and not give anything up, 'cause we're not having a picnic, and I'm not going to be playing shuffleboard with you here. You're out in the middle of nowhere. Nobody's gonna hear you screaming, or crying, or praying to God. The cops aren't coming to rescue you. This is old country - things have been dying out here for a long, long time, and there's no funerals, or writeups in the paper. It just gets covered up, and forgotten. You'll be gone, just like the dinosaurs..." Oscar Jade, a private detective who lives in a one-room flop above a beachfront watering hole, has a screaming hangover. A good-looking dame walks into his life and says that her husband wants her dead. A man with a gun is following her. It's just another day in paradise... Promotional Quote: "Welcome Oscar Jade, and his equally enigmatic creator, Mark Loeffelholz: here are two studs who share in that wonderfully American crime fiction spirit...the impulse to enjoy soaking confessions in the dirty pool of high-minded morality, and then hanging those suckers out to dry for all the neighbors to see." - John Hospodka, author of South Side Trilogy (www.bohemianpupil.com) Read more
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