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Dangerous Conceits

Dennis O'Donnell

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Description:'Dangerous Conceits' is a detective novel by Dennis O’Donnell, author of 'The Locked Ward'. O'Donnell has been a lifelong fan of American crime writers like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane. 'Dangerous Conceits' updates the private eye novel to contemporary West Lothian and, in the person of Jack Black, provides aficionados of the genre with a new take on the legendary gumshoes of the 30s and 40s.Jack Black is single - again - a smoker and a lover of Shakespeare. He hardly drinks at all any more. He lives alone with his cat, Black Jack, listens to the blues and does humdrum private investigator work to keep the wolf from the door. That is, until the summer Grace McGuire turns up at his little office above the Chinese takeaway in Bathgate.It’s scorching. Jack is going through a dry spell. Then Grace arrives ...'I pegged her as in her early forties. She had collar-length brown hair and big puppy-dog eyes. Her nose was long, but then so was Nefertiti’s, they say. Or maybe that was Cleopatra. I can’t comment. Personally, I’ve never gone in for those ancient Egyptian babes. I know that my description makes her sound like a borzoi but, just take my word for it, the features all worked. Later, when she used it, she had one of those rare smiles that’s been described by lesser writers as ‘radiant’. Smiling, she had all the allure of the three Sirens together, the time each of them had a big magnet in one hand, a strong light in the other, and a decoy duck on her head. Her smile had all the strangeness and charm of a sub-atomic particle. An Ideal Tooth Exhibition. She also had a fine set of curves that were pleasantly wrapped in a tan V-neck top and a pair of fawn slacks. But it was her legs that were the piece de resistance, as Marcel Marceau would say - fine, shapely things that went all the way up to her tush and back down again. State of the art legs. With pins like that, you’d keep a spare pair in the cupboard under the stairs in case of accidents. She deserved one of those throaty gurgles that Roy Orbison does in Pretty Woman.'In no time Jack is up to his ears in an investigation that involves him in evangelical religion, sexual promiscuity and murder. Dangerous conceits, indeed. Jack is a modern private eye with more than a touch of the great side-of-the-mouth ‘noir’ detectives of the 30s and 40s he so admires. This is fast, funny and unputdownable.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dangerous Conceits. To get started finding Dangerous Conceits, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 'Dangerous Conceits' is a detective novel by Dennis O’Donnell, author of 'The Locked Ward'. O'Donnell has been a lifelong fan of American crime writers like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane. 'Dangerous Conceits' updates the private eye novel to contemporary West Lothian and, in the person of Jack Black, provides aficionados of the genre with a new take on the legendary gumshoes of the 30s and 40s.Jack Black is single - again - a smoker and a lover of Shakespeare. He hardly drinks at all any more. He lives alone with his cat, Black Jack, listens to the blues and does humdrum private investigator work to keep the wolf from the door. That is, until the summer Grace McGuire turns up at his little office above the Chinese takeaway in Bathgate.It’s scorching. Jack is going through a dry spell. Then Grace arrives ...'I pegged her as in her early forties. She had collar-length brown hair and big puppy-dog eyes. Her nose was long, but then so was Nefertiti’s, they say. Or maybe that was Cleopatra. I can’t comment. Personally, I’ve never gone in for those ancient Egyptian babes. I know that my description makes her sound like a borzoi but, just take my word for it, the features all worked. Later, when she used it, she had one of those rare smiles that’s been described by lesser writers as ‘radiant’. Smiling, she had all the allure of the three Sirens together, the time each of them had a big magnet in one hand, a strong light in the other, and a decoy duck on her head. Her smile had all the strangeness and charm of a sub-atomic particle. An Ideal Tooth Exhibition. She also had a fine set of curves that were pleasantly wrapped in a tan V-neck top and a pair of fawn slacks. But it was her legs that were the piece de resistance, as Marcel Marceau would say - fine, shapely things that went all the way up to her tush and back down again. State of the art legs. With pins like that, you’d keep a spare pair in the cupboard under the stairs in case of accidents. She deserved one of those throaty gurgles that Roy Orbison does in Pretty Woman.'In no time Jack is up to his ears in an investigation that involves him in evangelical religion, sexual promiscuity and murder. Dangerous conceits, indeed. Jack is a modern private eye with more than a touch of the great side-of-the-mouth ‘noir’ detectives of the 30s and 40s he so admires. This is fast, funny and unputdownable.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dangerous Conceits. To get started finding Dangerous Conceits, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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