When the thrill is gone
By: Walter Mosley
Series: Leonid McGill mystery -- 3; A Leonid McGill mystery
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780297865476; 9780297865490
Subjects: Private investigators; Leonid McGill (Fictitious character); Fiction
Description: The economy has hit the PI business hard and Leonid McGill is getting job offers only from the criminals he's worked so hard to leave behind. So how can he say no to the beautiful young woman who walks into his office with a stack of cash? She's an artist, she tells him, who's escaped poverty via marriage to a rich collector.
Table of contents: title: The economy has hit the PI business hard, so how can Leonid McGill say no to the beautiful young woman who walks into his office with a stack of cash? She's an artist, she tells him, who's escaped poverty via marriage to a rich collector. A rich collector with two ex-wives whose deaths are shrouded in mystery. She says she fears for her life, and needs Leonid's help. Is the client at his door who she seems and; title: if his family's misadventures don't kill him first; title: will sorting out the woman's crooked tale bring Leonid straight to death's door?