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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Seven the Hard Way

Seven the Hard Way

Laracy, Steve

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798740973135
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 24 2021
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Jack Kovacs, kicked off the police force, becomes a private detective in 1920s Chicago. Seven the Hard Way is a collection of six short stories and one novella tracing Kovacs's life from the Prohibition era to the late 1940s.Hard Winter Night-Kovacs helps a woman who owes money, money she can't repay, to a mob boss.Good Day for a Massacre-Caught up in two events of 1929, the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre and the stock market crash, Kovacs travels Route 66 to Oklahoma, searching for a runaway wife and a box of ancient coins.Crooked Alley-A murder in the alley behind Kovacs's office building sends him searching for a book the mob wants to recover and the woman who took it.Kovacs Alone (novella)-Kovacs revisits old neighborhoods and retraces his life while trying to solve four murders. The only apparent connection to the four murders-Kovacs himself.Aladdin's Castle-The kidnapping of an executive for a novelties company climaxes in a hunt around an amusement park.Down for the Count-Trying to help a woman locate a missing boyfriend, Kovacs finds murder in Milwaukee.Ten Cents a Dance-Nearing retirement, Kovacs finds a corpse in the Chicago stockyards and takes a final shot at romance with a dime-a-dance girl.

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