基本信息出版社：Minotaur Books
页码：272 页
出版日期：2007年12月
ISBN：0312360436
International Standard Book Number：0312360436
条形码：9780312360436
EAN：9780312360436
版本：1st
装帧：精装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Rat Pack Mysteries

内容简介

Vegas, 1960. Gamblin’, drinkin’, and everybody’s misbehavin’.

Six months ago, while they were filming Ocean’s 11, the Rat Pack needed Eddie Gianelli’s help to track down the mug who was sending threatening letters to Dino. Now they’re back for the premiere and it’s Frank who needs Eddie’s help. Seems a babe he was planning to meet in Sin City took a powder---leaving behind her luggage and a stiff in the bathtub. She’s on the lam, and it’s up to Eddie to find her and figure out if she’s a victim or a killer.

Once again Eddie teams up with his P.I. buddy, Danny Bardini, and the Jewish New York torpedo, Jerry Epstein, who never met a pancake he didn’t like. Together they scour the neon streets, smoke-filled lounges, casinos, and seamy back alleys, dodging bodies and thugs with guns. But when Sam Giancana arrives on the scene, Eddie starts to wonder if he’s going to be able to keep himself out of jail---and alive.

Celebrity cameos spice up the action, and Mo Mo Giancana brings a dark presence to the story. Once again, Randisi, the man Booklist says “may be the last of the pulp writers,” gives readers a tour de force of bright lights, hot dice, and drop-dead-gorgeous dames in this second novel in the exciting, acclaimed series.

作者简介

Robert J. Randisi is the author of the Nick Delvecchio and the Miles Jacoby series. He is the founder and executive director of the Private Eye Writers of America, creator of the Shamus Award, and the cofounder of Mystery Scene magazine.

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专业书评 From Publishers Weekly

Randisi brings back casino pit boss Eddie Gianelli for his fast-paced second adventure in 1960 Las Vegas. Gianelli helped out Dean Martin in Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime (2006), so it's a natural for Dean to call on Gianelli when his buddy Frank (Sinatra) runs into a little problem involving a missing girl. Plenty more names are dropped when the Rat Pack assembles in Vegas, where Dean is performing before the premiere of Ocean's Eleven. There are also plenty of bodies dropping as Gianelli and his New York–based protector, Jerry Epstein, try to locate Frank's girl discreetly. Randisi perfectly captures the glitz, glamour, corruption and crime of the era, using the Rat Pack gang with affectionate respect and considerable acumen. Gianelli and Epstein make an entertaining and effective odd couple, nimbly charting a path beset by stars, capos and cops as they hunt down a gal that somebody wants dead. (Dec.)
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