Crime Gets a Head, by Talmage Powell (epub/Kindle/pdf)
A private detective hired to investigate a husband's death that was ruled a suicide tangles with mobsters—and a missing dog.
A private detective hired to investigate a husband's death that was ruled a suicide tangles with mobsters—and a missing dog.
Talmage Powell (1920-2000) was one of the all-time great mystery writers of the pulps (and later the
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