

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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