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>