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    My Girl Friday
    My Girl Friday
    My Girl Friday
    Ebook65 pages54 minutes

    My Girl Friday

    By Roger Penrose

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    A private detective story set in Tucson, gone horribly wrong.

    Hamish Howl can't quite remember how he became a gumshoe, nor how or when he hired his assistant, Friday. He's been hired to solve a murder in a world that's a mash-up of Studebakers and hovertanks. To top it all off, it seems that God wants him dead. But Friday is on the case.

    This is the first installment of the Tucson Chronicles, strange tales of a bizarre city.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRoger Penrose
    Release dateAug 12, 2015
    ISBN9781311837943
    My Girl Friday
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    Roger Penrose

    Roger Penrose is a former infantryman in the US Army, and now spends his days repairing complex industrial equipment. He lives in Tucson, Arizona, a city which provides all the horror and weirdness for which any author could reasonably ask.

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