Albert Samson has been persuaded to sell himself more positively as a private detective, an attitude that brings him a tantalizing case, investigating who is planting a series of bombs in and around Indianapolis. However, the case brings him into conflict with the police.
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Albert Samson has been persuaded to sell himself more positively as a private detective, an attitude that brings him a tantalizing case, investigating who is planting a series of bombs in and around Indianapolis. However, the case brings him into conflict with the police.
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Neil Phillips (Jacket photograph) and Kate Butler. Very good in Good jacket. The format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.75 inches. [6], 258 pages. Signed by the author on the title page. Minor page discoloration. DJ has some wear and tear. This is one of the Albert Samson novels. Michael Zinn Lewin (born 1942 in Massachusetts) is an American writer of mystery fiction, best known for his series about Albert Samson, a low-keyed, non-hardboiled private detective in Indianapolis, Indiana. Samson's was arguably the first truly regional series for a private-eye, beginning with "Ask the Right Question" published in 1971. Lewin has also written a number of stand-alone novels. Some have been set in Indianapolis and others elsewhere. One novel, "Confessions of a Discontented Deity", is even set largely in Heaven. A satire, it is one of a number of Lewin's works that break from traditional genre fiction. "Cutting Loose" (a historical novel that moves from Indiana to London in the 19th century), "Men Like Us" (whose central character is an American from Indiana trying to find redemption in London), and "Whatever It Takes", a short dystopian novel which has also been viewed by some as satire. Samson tells his stories in the first-person narrative form typical of many private-eye novels. They are witty, and they are off-beat, both for their plotting and setting and for the sharply drawn relationships that Samson has with his mother, who owns a luncheonette, and with his long-time girlfriend. Samson's daughter features significantly. What about his late father? That relationship is described in "A Question of Fathers" first published in 2014 in Ellery Queens Mystery Magazine. Called by a Panther is the 7th book in the Albert Samson Mysteries. Indianapolis PI Albert Samson picks up three cases that land him on the city's most wanted list in this mystery from the Shamus Award-winning author. Albert Samson, Indy's least successful PI, is working three cases at once: an ecoterrorist group threatens to bomb the city, an obnoxious poet wants help murdering his wife, and a dazzling socialite's mysterious package needs a courier. The ecoterrorism group, the Scum Front, arrive at his door in animal masks after misplacing a bomb. Thankfully, they have only blown up fallow cornfields so far, but Samson must track down the missing bomb before it detonates in the city. Meanwhile, he discovers that the poet is not, in fact, married. And he wonders why a beautiful member of the Indianapolis elite would hire him as a delivery boy. As the three seemingly unrelated cases collide, time is running out for Samson to find the missing explosives, nail the culprit, and get out alive. Constantly attracting bizarre clients, the smart-mouthed midwestern detective "is always good, wry company" in the critically acclaimed Albert Samson Mystery (Kirkus Reviews).
