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Blondes’ Requiem

When Marc Spewack, private investigator, arrives in Cranville, he is aware of the terror, violence and sudden death that are to come. He has been engaged by Lewes Wolf, Czar of Cranville, to investigate a series of mysterious disappearances. No less than five young girls have vanished without trace, and the panic-stricken citizens of Cranville are demanding immediate action to find the girls and bring their kidnapper to justice.

Wolf is determined to be elected mayor of Cranville and he has only hired Spewack to gain favour with the voters. The two other candidates for the election, Esslinger, the City’s mortician, and Starkey, a gambler, also make plans to find the missing girls. It soon becomes obvious that whoever is the first to solve these mysterious disappearances will become mayor.

Esslinger engages Audrey Sheridan, a woman investigator, and Starkey relies on the crooked police chief to find the missing girts. The case is complicated enough by itself without rival investigators stealing each other’s clues and double-crossing each other at every turn of the game. Despite these handicaps, Marc Spewack succeeds in breaking the case.

The story is full of fast dramatic action, grotesque situations and weird characters who will leave the reader with an eerie sensation he will not soon forget.

He was a big strapping fellow around thirty, broad and well-built, but far from muscular; soft, just this side of fat.

“Hello, Baby,” he said. “You one of her boy friends?”

“Go jump in a lake,” I said. “Jump into two if one won’t hold you,” and I turned back to Netta’s door.

He giggled. “There’s no one there,” he said, added in an undertone. “She’s dead: died by her own hand.”

I felt a little cold breath against my cheek. There was something wrong here. I knew Netta well. She wasn’t the suicide type.

And that’s how it began. From then on Steve Harmas, American newspaper correspondent, was never out of trouble. Netta’s body was kidnapped, then her mysterious sister Anne also committed suicide. Harmas, working on his own to try to solve the mystery of these two girls’ deaths, became so involved in the murders that followed that he was in danger of being arrested himself.

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