no sign of murder: a private investigator stuart winter novel (stuart winter novels book 1)  <b>“chilling...satisfying...offers up tasty tidbits of san francisco lore . . . [russell] has a gift for dialogue, slyly using it to reveal character.”</b>—<i>new york times book review</i> <br> <br>san francisco p.i. stuart winter looks into the death of a young, deaf heiress who volunteered as a sign language instructor—for a gorilla who may have witnessed her murder. <br> <br><b>“polished and provocative...a california mystery of the hard-boiled school...very well written, with a corking good plot and fine characters.”</b>—<i>booklist</i> <br> <br><b>“remarkable...[hops] from avant-garde theater to a deaf school, from winos’ alleys to an artist’s studio, to a double-twist conclusion.”</b>—<i>armchair detective</i> <br> <br><b>“an exemplary debut. highly recommended.”</b>—<i>kirkus reviews</i> <br> <br><b>“a shocker...a genuinely original pi novel.”</b>—jeremiah healy, shamus award-winning author <br> <br><b>“a wise book, distilled from a life’s understanding of the human animal: its limits, excesses, and, on occasion, its surpassing beauty.”</b>—loren d. estleman, author of the amos walker mysteries <br> <br><i>three tails press editions have been revised and updated by the author.</i>