num_pages: 170
description: Dick Contino - 50s accordion player, a star in the making, is destroyed by a draft-dodging scandal. His life is on the skids until he comes up with the idea of resurrecting his career with a fake kidnapping scam.Meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose in Los Angeles...a killer who is closer to Contino than he suspects - a killer who wants in on the kidnap, for real...Plus five previously unpublished short stories.
language: English
title: Dick Contino's Blues and Other Stories
titlecomplete: Dick Contino's Blues and Other Stories
genres: Crime, American, Thriller, Noir, Mystery Thriller, Short Stories, Fiction, Detective, Contemporary, Mystery
ratings_count: 2600
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Short Story Collection
publisher: Random House