By F. G. Haghenbeck
ISBN-10: 1612183905
ISBN-13: 9781612183909
Beatnik detective Sunny Pascal is a professional at issues: cocktails and discovering difficulty. And while the filming of John Huston’s The Night of the Iguana hits a number of snags with its sexed-up, famous person- studded solid in a Puerto Vallarta paradise, manufacturer Ray Stark brings Sunny in to cool out the set. yet issues get tipsy while someone’s chanced on deader than useless, shot down by way of a gun belonging to at least one of the solid individuals.
Now Sunny’s bought to maintain his Hollywood stars out of reformatory lengthy adequate for him to resolve the case. however the hassle doesn’t cease with homicide. The Mexican mafia and native newspapers salary a stress battle opposed to the hedonistic americans, and if John Huston has something to claim approximately it, Sunny’s acquired to be the only to maintain the exhibit at the highway. purely Sunny can be doing it his method: with a martini in a single hand and a Colt within the different.
Prolific Mexican comedian ebook author and switch of the Screw Award–winner F.G. Haghenbeck supplies us the spins with Bitter Drink, a demanding story of crime, ardour, and cocktails.
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I didn’t imagine it,” said Tess. “Something with fingers caught hold of my ankle. ” Tess’s tense expression relaxed and lightened into a smile. She was fighting this. “I’m sorry, Mr. Clarke. I won’t be a spoilsport. And, after all, what did anybody expect? That’s what we’re here for, isn’t it? ” “But—” “There was something there, Mr. Clarke. ” Two doors opened into the hall, one at the left and one at the right. We looked toward the door at the left, because a light had been switched on there.
This is Mrs. ” smiled Gwyneth. “I’ve been so wanting to meet you, Miss Fraser. I’m your chaperon, you know. You must be tired after that drive. ” “Thanks,” said Tess. ” The room at the left of the hall, it appeared, was the drawing-room. It was very long and spacious, with two of the big windows opening on the front driveway. Evidently as a concession to modernity, it had been furnished with rich but subdued heaviness: fitted carpet, deep chairs upholstered in wine-colored velvet, fat-bowled Chinese lamps on the side tables.
Clarke. But I could be much more keen about a week end in the country if it weren’t such foul weather. Just look at those windows! ” 45 Clarke stared at her. ” “Certainly not. That house has been vacant for upwards of seventeen years. It will take more than a month to put it in anything like a decent state of repair. No, no, no. I was merely, like a crafty host, planning ahead. ” He drew out a pocket diary and leafed through the pages. “What would you say to a Whitsuntide party? Whitsunday, this year, falls on May 17th.
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