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Allegretto presented Denver-based private eye Jacob Lomax in his Shamus Award-winning first novel, Death on the Rocks , and gained more applause with Blood Stone. In the third gritty, mordantly witty adventure related by Lomax, he searches for a lost teenager, Stephanie Bellano. Hired by the girl's father Joe, a barber with a sideline in bookmaking, Lomax keeps working on the case even after Joe is killed by a bomb planted in Stephanie's car. Believing the intended victim was the daughter, not the father, Lomax nevertheless checks on patrons of the barbershop and rival bookies, thus making himself a target of the local mafia. Other minor, equally murderous crooks gang up on the investigator but merely deepen his outrage and zeal to save Stephanie and himself. It is a monumental task that Lomax accomplishes finally, maintaining suspense in a many-layered mystery that ought to win Allegretto another prize.
Allegretto presented Denver-based private eye Jacob Lomax in his Shamus Award-winning first novel, Death on the Rocks , and gained more applause with Blood Stone. In the third gritty, mordantly witty adventure related by Lomax, he searches for a lost teenager, Stephanie Bellano. Hired by the girl's father Joe, a barber with a sideline in bookmaking, Lomax keeps working on the case even after Joe is killed by a bomb planted in Stephanie's car. Believing the intended victim was the daughter, not the father, Lomax nevertheless checks on patrons of the barbershop and rival bookies, thus making himself a target of the local mafia. Other minor, equally murderous crooks gang up on the investigator but merely deepen his outrage and zeal to save Stephanie and himself. It is a monumental task that Lomax accomplishes finally, maintaining suspense in a many-layered mystery that ought to win Allegretto another prize.
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Hardback Editions
January 1993 : Hardback
| Title: The Dead of Winter Author(s): Michael Allegretto ISBN: 0-7089-2781-5 / 978-0-7089-2781-6 (UK edition) Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
July 1990 : Hardback
| Title: Dead of Winter Author(s): Michael Allegretto ISBN: 0-333-53989-3 / 978-0-333-53989-7 (UK edition) Publisher: Macmillan, London Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
August 1989 : Hardback
| Title: Dead of Winter (A Jacob Lomax Mystery) Author(s): Michael Allegretto ISBN: 0-684-19138-5 / 978-0-684-19138-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Scribner Book Company Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
February 1991 : Paperback
| Title: The Dead of Winter Author(s): Michael Allegretto ISBN: 0-380-71120-6 / 978-0-380-71120-8 (USA edition) Publisher: Avon Books (Mm) Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1989 : Paperback
| Title: THE DEAD OF WINTER A Jacob Lomax Mystery. Author(s): Michael. Allegretto Publisher: New York: Scribners (1989). Availability: Amazon More details... |
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