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![]() | Blood Stone (1988) (The second book in the Jacob Lomax series) A novel by Michael Allegretto |
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The stone of the title is a ruby, set in a diamond necklace given by Horace Tabor to his second wife, Baby Doe, after he struck it rich in a Colorado silver mine. Stolen along with a few million dollars worth of other jewels in a robbery 20 years ago, it was never recovered; the cache is of reawakened interest when the only man convicted of the crime is paroled. A host of felons, investigators and gumshoes, including Jacob Lomax, a Denver private eye met before in Death on the Rocks , cluster around the ex-con waiting for leads to the treasure. A few murders, one of which the police charge Lomax with, complicate the investigation before its climax in a harrowing search down an 80-foot shaft in an abandoned mine. While Allegretto has assembled promising tough-guy detective-fiction elements, his hard-boiled prose isn't spare enough, nor is the plot taut enough, to carry through the story's potential.
Genre: Mystery
The stone of the title is a ruby, set in a diamond necklace given by Horace Tabor to his second wife, Baby Doe, after he struck it rich in a Colorado silver mine. Stolen along with a few million dollars worth of other jewels in a robbery 20 years ago, it was never recovered; the cache is of reawakened interest when the only man convicted of the crime is paroled. A host of felons, investigators and gumshoes, including Jacob Lomax, a Denver private eye met before in Death on the Rocks , cluster around the ex-con waiting for leads to the treasure. A few murders, one of which the police charge Lomax with, complicate the investigation before its climax in a harrowing search down an 80-foot shaft in an abandoned mine. While Allegretto has assembled promising tough-guy detective-fiction elements, his hard-boiled prose isn't spare enough, nor is the plot taut enough, to carry through the story's potential.
Genre: Mystery
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Hardback Editions
June 1989 : Hardback
| Title: Bloodstone Author(s): Michael Allegretto ISBN: 0-333-51145-X / 978-0-333-51145-9 (UK edition) Publisher: Macmillan Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 1988 : Hardback
| Title: Blood Stone: A Jacob Lomax Mystery Author(s): Michael Allegretto ISBN: 0-684-18966-6 / 978-0-684-18966-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Scribner Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA WorldCat More details... |
January 1984 : Hardback
| Title: Blood Stone : A Jacob Lomax Mystery Author(s): Michael Allegretto Publisher: Villard Availability: Amazon More details... |
Paperback Editions
September 1990 : Paperback
| Title: Blood Stone Author(s): Michael Allegretto ISBN: 0-380-71119-2 / 978-0-380-71119-2 (USA edition) Publisher: Avon Books (Mm) Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA WorldCat More details... |
1988 : Paperback
| Title: Blood Stone Author(s): Michael Allegretto Publisher: New York: Scribner's, 1988 Availability: Amazon More details... |
Other Editions
January 1990 : Unknown
| Title: Blood Stone Author(s): Publisher: Avon Books (Mm) Availability: Amazon More details... |
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