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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (Wesley Farrell, Bk 3)
Daddy's Gone AHunting - Wesley Farrell, Bk 3 Author:Robert Skinner New Orleans 1938. Wesley Farrell, a golden-skinned, gray-eyed mixed-blood Creole who has been passing for white in the Jim Crow South of the day, is recruited by fellow club owner Carol Donovan, whose business is being threatened by Archie Badeaux, a lieutenant of the underworld boss, Jonathan Lincoln. — Wesley questions threats made to Carol and... more » her club, Sergeant Israel Daggett investigates the murders, Ralph Daniels runs for his life, Savannah (Wesley's ex-girlfriend) attempts to begin her life anew, cocaine sniffing Archie Badeaux bullies, beats and kills people, humoring his boss, wheelchair-bound gangster Jonathan Lincoln.
In New Orleans, like taking a time machine back to the 1930s when men were men and to be avoided, Wesley Farrell is a finely tuned Chandleresque hero... "Some knew him by sight; others saw the way he moved and the way his eyes roved over them, like the sights on a gun, and looked away quickly." And the women in the book are not to be taken lightly. What more can you say about a woman who, "... was enough to make a Baptist minister drink swamp water, crawl inside a hollow log, and bay at the moon."?« less