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Peeper

by Loren D. Estleman
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A priest’s death leads a Detroit gumshoe into a case of church corruption in this mordantly funny hard-boiled crime novel
 
Ralph Poteet is forty pounds overweight, out of gin, and he hasn’t seen his gun in weeks. As far as private detectives go, he’s not much to look at. But he’s the only one in the building, and that’s enough for Lyla Dane. A call girl who’s far better at her job than Ralph is at his, she calls him in the middle of the night because she has a dead monsignor in her bed.
 
After dealing with Lyla’s deceased client, Ralph tries his hand at blackmail, offering to keep mum about the priest’s embarrassing demise in exchange for a payoff from the diocese. But when somebody tries to kill Ralph and Lyla, Detroit’s most unsavory PI is swept into an unholy swarm of deadly secrets that resonates all the way to Washington, DC, and the Vatican.
 
Three-time Shamus Award–winning author Loren D. Estleman delivers a witty, ribald send-up of the hard-boiled detective genre in this action-packed crime novel.
 

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    May 17, 2016

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      • ISBN: 9781504034869
      • File size: 1545 KB

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      • ISBN: 9781504034869
      • File size: 4049 KB

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 1, 1989
      Estleman, arguably the finest practitioner of hard-boiled private eye fiction with his Amos Walker novels, shifts gears in this latest offering. The setting is still Detroit, but readers expecting the usual tight, tough adventure are in for a surprise. Estleman tries for humor here, but he does not bring it off. Ralph Poteet is about as sleazy as PIs get, and when the hooker upstairs awakens him in the middle of the night because she's got a dead Monsignor in her bed, he sees dollar signs flashing. However, Bishop Steelcase, Ralph's intended blackmailee, proves to be no ordinary cleric, and his mysterious assistant, Carpenter, is something other than an everyday servant of the Lord. Soon there are more dead bodies for Poteet to contend with, and both the police and a killer are looking for him. A beautiful young woman with an inexplicable lust for his body also shows up and keeps him thoroughly exhausted. The humor is broad, the story silly; the usually reliable writer disappoints this time out.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 29, 1990
      PI Ralph Poteet contends with the police, a killer and numerous murder victims after attempting to blackmail a bishop with evidence of a monsignor dying in a hooker's bed. ``The humor is broad, the story silly; the usually reliable writer disappoints this time out,'' complained PW .

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