Catch The Girls Number Doesnt Answer (Prologue Books) Chronicled By Talmage Powell File Ebook

Girls Number Doesnt Answer” is the second of five Ed Rivers novels authored by Talmage Powell, The others in the series are:“The Killer Is Mine”“With A Madman Behind Me”“Start Screaming Murder” and“Corpus Delectable”.
Rivers is a private eye in the Tampa Bay area, having his office in Ybor City, the Spanish section, Rivers was originally a New Jersey police officer who fell for a girl who left him for a hood and then watched as his girl and the hood lost a race with a freight train.
He has some bitterness about this, He thought she had been “everything fine and decent molded into human form, ” Rivers is not a Tampa native and cant really stand the heat there, Each evening he buys a twentyfive pound block of ice and places it in front of a fan to cool down his bedroom or soaks in a tub of chilled water.
Hes tall, gangly, and ugly, He explains, “My face usually gets a reaction, Ive seen it fire the eyes of women with feelings ranging from acute distaste to hot hunger, ”

A friend of Rivers Nick Martin is accused of a gory triplemurder beheading committed by use of a massive samurai sword that been hanging in Nicks living room.
Everything points to Nick being the killer such as opportunity, access, etc, and it doesnt help that Nick and his wife Helen ran from the murder scene and were hiding out, Rivers, with all odds against him and pretty much on his own, is out to prove Nicks innocence, Nick remarks at one point that Rivers doesnt have many friends because the word means something to him, “You give a part of a kind of holy thing inside of you when you call somebody a friend, ”

Like all of Powells books, this is a good, solid read and moves quickly without too many plot entanglements.
If you enjoy fifties PI novels, give Powells Ed Rivers series a try, It is simply good solid PI fiction, It doesnt try to be too fancy, too poetic, or too philosophical, but once you pick up one of his books, it is really difficult to put it down before you reach the conclusion.
Three people were dead, their heads bashed in, their bodies hacked with a samurai sword, All three victims were Japanese, The murder weapon was traced to Nick Martin, a veteran of Iwo Jima, Nick had spent fifteen painridden years in and out of Army hospitals, He tried to drown his memories of the horror, but whisky only put him right back in the middle of that fierce battle.


Nick drank a fifth the night of the killing,

That's the kind of case the police call 'open and shut, ' But Ed Rivers, a private detective, was a friend of Nick Martin's, And no one was shutting the door of a death cell on Nick not while Rivers could still go after the real, fiendishly clever murderer.
Interesting to note similarities between the murders of a Japanese family in THE GIRL'S NUMBER DOESN'T ANSWER and sitelinkPerfidia by James Ellroy.
Ed Rivers is a private detective who works on behalf of Nick, his friend who's a war hero suffering from PTS and is accused of the horrific crime.
Nick has battled the bottle and flashbacks, and is the sole suspect in the crime, Ed works hard to clear Nick's name by tracking down the real killer, Decent storyline as Ed bucks the stacked deck against his friend to prove his innocence, with a surprise as to who the actual killer turns to be, and the danger he faces in revealing who committed the crime.
Next up by Talmage Powell will be sitelinkWith a Madman Behind Me, therd book in the Ed Rivers series with sitelinkThe Killer is Mine being the first.
I like this stuff, but Powell overdoes the "local color" BS, I've lived here since thes and we rarely eat chicken and yellow rice or that goofynamed bean soup gazpazilla or something.
Although, Cuban sandwiches are pretty usual,

Ed Rivers eats nothing but this Cuban stuff, as if it's the norm here, Not so. BBQ and steaks are what people eat here,

In general he greatly exaggerates the Cuban BS and Ybor City's prominence, Pen Names: Robert Hart Davis, Robert Henry, Milton T, Lamb, Milton T. Land, sitelink Jack McCready, sitelink Anne Talmage, and Dave Sands, U. S. AuthorTalmage Powell began his writing career in, Mr. Powell created overstories for the pulp fiction magazines writing in almost every genre and for all of the top magazines.
After the demise of the pulps, Mr, Powell continued to write anotherplus short stories for fiction magazines such as Ellery Queen,

Alfred Hitchcock, Mike Shayne, Manhunt and Suspense.
Powell also had a number of successful novels published during thes ands, His Ed Rivers series is recognized as some of the best Private Investigator stories from that era, Mr. Powell also had written a number of novels under Pen Names: Robert Hart Davis, Robert Henry, Milton T, Lamb, Milton T. Land, sitelink Jack McCready, sitelink Anne Talmage, and Dave Sands, U. S. AuthorTalmage Powell began his writing career in, Mr. Powell created overstories for the pulp fiction magazines writing in almost every genre and for all of the top magazines.
After the demise of the pulps, Mr, Powell continued to write anotherplus short stories for fiction magazines such as Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock, Mike Shayne, Manhunt and Suspense.
Powell also had a number of successful novels published during thes ands, His Ed Rivers series is recognized as some of the best Private Investigator stories from that era, Mr. Powell also had written a number of novels under the Ellery Queen by line as well, He also contributed his creative talents to screenwriting and television work, Talmage Powell has had a long and successful career by delivering suspensful, intelligent, action based stories that any reader would enjoy.
Pulp Magazines Partial: Dime Detective, Dime Mystery, Detective Tales, Ten Detecive Aces, Doc Savage, The Shadow, G Men Detective, Ranch Romances, Fifteen Western Tales, Hollywood Detective, Crack Detective, Black Mask, and many.
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