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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Hyperion US APRIL-JUNE 2003
Tim Cockey Hearse Case Scenario Pbk published June 2003 by Hyperion US at £4.99 ISBN: 0786889950


In best-selling follow-up to Hearse of a Different Color, this mystery - now in a mass market edition - finds our drop-dead gorgeous undertaker, Hitchock Sewel, up to his ears in murders, with all the clues pointing to a Baltimore night-club. Following his nose, Hitch uncovers a host of nefarious goings-on, plus a felonious artist, a Miles Davis wanna-be, an Ida Lupino look-alike, and one very irritated dance instructor. Throw in a bag of cash and an incriminating Polaroid, and you have another sure-fire, humour-laced hit from today's freshest mystery writers.
Nightclub owner Shrimp Martin has been shot, and Hitchcock Sewell already knows who-done-it. It's his friend, Lucy Taylor, who went directly to Hitch's funeral home and placed the smoking gun on his desk. As it happens, Shrimp survives his gunshot wound. However, what he doesn't survive is the knife that is plunged into his heart as he lies resting in his hospital bed. Naturally, the police would like to question Lucy Taylor. But she has only slipped away from Hitch's custody, hooked up with Hitch's ex-wife Julia and the two have now disappeared. Matters get only more complicated when Shrimp's younger brother - also a friend of Lucy's - turns up dead. Is Lucy on a rampage? Is Julia somehow involved? As Hitch begins to nose about, he is joined by a private eye named Pete, who is in the full bloom of a career, and mid-life, crisis. Together the two uncover nefarious goings-ons at the nightclub, learn of a mysterious missing bag containing several hundred thousand dollars, and begin to wonder if a notorious year-old murder case involving a local student and her professor might not somehow be connected with all of this.

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