num_pages: 248
description: It is 10:16 P.M. when Dr. Brice Hanchett approaches his car, about to return home to his wife's bed from his mistress's. At 10:17 he is dead, shot twice in the chest. By 1:20 A.M., as the coroner's van pulls away, It. frank Hastings is almost certain that this was not a random street crime.Head of a leading hospital's crack transplant team, Hanchett was a powerful man who played God, in his work and out of it. Too many people wanted him dead, and a bewildering parade of suspects challenges Hastings's experience and instincts, leading to a deadly game of hide-and-seek.
language: English
title: Hire a Hangman
titlecomplete: Hire a Hangman (Lt. Hastings, #17)
genres: Mystery
ratings_count: 14
series: Lt. Hastings
publisher: Henry Holt & Co