num_pages: 256
description: Ex-private eye C.W. Sughrue has been depressed, jobless and living in the basement of a morgue, but now a job has come up. He sets off on an odyssey of liquor, sex and gunplay to find a missing woman who has eluded the FBI and cocaine dealers.
language: English
title: The Mexican Tree Duck
titlecomplete: The Mexican Tree Duck (C.W. Sughrue, #2)
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, 20th Century, The United States Of America, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Noir, Hard Boiled
ratings_count: 1121
series: C.W. Sughrue
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Hammett Prize
publisher: Mysterious Press