Requiem for a dummy
Subtitle: a Johnny One Eye novel
By: David Stuart Davies
Publisher: Robert Hale
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780709088646
Subjects: Johnny Hawke (Fictitious character); Fiction; Private investigators; Ventriloquists; Crimes against; History; Détectives; Romans, nouvelles; Ventriloques; Crimes contre; Histoire; FICTION; Mystery & Detective; Police Procedural; General
Other titles: Johnny One Eye novel
Description: Successful ventriloquist Raymond Carter begins receiving death threats over the telephone. These calls are especially unnerving as the threats are made in the voice of his dummy, Charlie Dokes. Disturbed, Carter calls on the services of private detective Johnny Hawke to get to the bottom of this bizarre case. However, when one of the cast of Carter's radio show is brutally murdered, the ventriloquist becomes a suspect and the investigation begins to take a dark and surreal path. This not only places Johnny in danger, but also those who are close to him.