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Sleep with Slander

by Unknown Author

245 pages2021Library of America, TheISBN 9781598536980

About this book

*“Do you mean,” Sader said, “that you abandoned him? That none of you offered him a home? you left him there in that condemned house with an old woman who hadn’t even been paid for keeping him? With nothing to eat?”* From the LOA website: Private eye Jim Sader returns in this hard-hitting thriller. A hunt for a kidnapped boy leads through a labyrinth of well-hidden family secrets into the heart of an elaborate and malevolent deception. With little to go on—a tightlipped client, an anonymous letter, a mother who is supposed to be dead—Sader must rely on his wits to find the child even as he outraces the personal demons that dog him. Sleep with Slander is a masterpiece in the classic hardboiled tradition, tough, compassionate, and tautly told.

Publication Details

Publisher
Library of America, The
Published
2021
Pages
245
ISBN
9781598536980

About Unknown Author

Julia Clara Catharine Dolores Birk Olsen Hitchens was born in San Antonio, Texas. She worked as a nurse and as a teacher before she started her writing career. She wrote a large number of lightweight mysteries, mostly in the cozy tradition, but she also wrote a pair of hardboiled mysteries featuring a private eye named Jim Sader, books squarely in the Chandlerite tradition. Her first book, A Clue in the Clay, was published in 1938. She produced almost 50 books over the course of her career.

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