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Title details for Fever by Bill Pronzini - Available

Fever

#32 in series

by Bill Pronzini
Nick Sullivan
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Nameless had told Mitchell Krochek that he'd do whatever he could to find his missing wife, Janice. She'd run away before—propelled by a gambling fever that grew ever higher—and Mitch had always taken her back. This time, when Nameless, his partner Tamara, and the agency's chief operative Jake Runyon finally found her in a sleazy San Francisco hotel, she demanded a divorce.

A few days later, a beaten and bloody Janice stumbled into the agency begging to go home. No one is surprised when, soon after her homecoming, she disappears again.

But gambling addiction has a way of twisting things, and the blood on Mitchell and Janice Krochek's kitchen floor was a card off the bottom of the deck.

Janice is missing again, Mitchell is the prime suspect, and as Nameless searches for the truth behind her disappearance, he uncovers a vicious racket that preys on gambling-fever victims ...

  • Creators

  • Series

    Nameless Detective

  • Publisher

  • Awards

  • Release date

    July 1, 2008

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792755838
      • File size: 206437 KB
      • Duration: 07:10:04

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Having narrated a considerable number of "Nameless Detective" novels, you'd expect veteran Nick Sullivan to get it down pat. While Sullivan delivers an adequate performance in this latest, his reading falls short of expectations. Nameless and his crew, Tamara and Jake, are called in to find a woman with a gambling addiction who has disappeared. Finding her is easy--Nameless finds her twice--then she disappears for good, and foul play is suspected, possibly by the woman's husband, who hired the detectives in the first place. When the search is launched again, something besides the missing woman is uncovered. Sullivan's announcer-like voice gets your attention, but there's little variation in his pace or his characters. You can be listening one moment, lost the next. A.L.H. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 14, 2008
      Once again Pronzini, soon to be designated an MWA Grand Master, captures the quiet despair of his characters’ lives in the 33rd entry in his noirish whodunit series featuring the Nameless Detective (after 2007’s Savages
      ). Mitchell Krochek, who’s worried about the gambling addiction of his wife, Janice, hires Nameless to trace Janice, who’s disappeared for the fourth time in four years. When Jake Runyon, Nameless’s associate, traces Janice to an apartment hotel near their San Francisco office, Nameless and Jake decide to honor Janice’s request not to reveal her location to her husband. Later, a battered Janice shows up at the detective agency’s office, where she agrees to go home, only to vanish again amid circumstances strongly indicating foul play. In an affecting subplot, Jake investigates the mysterious beating of a devoted churchgoer’s son. This insightful novel will appeal to those who like the mean streets portrayed with understatement and subtlety rather than gory violence.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

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