num_pages: 464
description: Bumbling comic criminal John Dortmunder is in hot water as he tries to keep a nasty old man from blowing up a dam to unearth $750,000. Dortmunder must devise a safer scheme to get the loot... before the old coot's trigger finger gets too itchy.
language: English
title: Drowned Hopes
titlecomplete: Drowned Hopes (Dortmunder, #7)
characters: Andy Kelp, John Dortmunder, Stan Murch, May Bellamy, Myrtle Street, Tom Jimson, Tiny Bulcher, Edna Street
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Humor, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Comedy, Adventure, Novels, Audiobook
ratings_count: 1636
series: Dortmunder
publisher: Mysterious Press