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Hit and Run
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He never should have gotten into it in the first place. But when you need money, sometimes you things you wouldn’t ordinarily think of doing. Nothing illegal, nothing like blackmail, something just a shade this side . . .
At least that was the way Barney Calhoun had it figured. It looked like the easiest ten thousand bucks he’d ever make. And she was lovely, though in the end she led him to murder . . .
An ex-cop turned private eye ought to know all the answers on how to commit the perfect crime. But somewhere along the line, he slipped up, and before he realized it they had him where the hair was short.
At least that was the way Barney Calhoun had it figured. It looked like the easiest ten thousand bucks he’d ever make. And she was lovely, though in the end she led him to murder . . .
An ex-cop turned private eye ought to know all the answers on how to commit the perfect crime. But somewhere along the line, he slipped up, and before he realized it they had him where the hair was short.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is without question a good story about a PI named Calhoun, a former Buffalo cop who was trolling for clients in a shady bar. After the bartender points out a well dressed couple, each married to someone else, Calhoun follows them out and witnesses a hit and run accident,
which he offers to clean up for a fee.
The driver was the woman he saw in the bar. She's married to a bank president and is fond of topless sunbathing. At least, every time Calhoun pays a call she's well exposed. And, he takes the bait, agreeing to cover up one crime after another
for one of the most cold, callous women he could ever have imagined.
Deming does a great job of leading the reader and Calhoun into the bottomless well step by step. In the end, it's as great a descent into hell as Dante ever wrote about.
It's a good story and very typical of this genre.
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