Death Wore Gloves
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
A Chicago PI faces a deadly world of femme fatales and not-so-saintly nuns in this crime novel from a “wild, shrewd, mad, and unexpectedly funny” author (The New York Times).
When Sister Rosetta’s niece goes missing, the nun (whose favorite poison is anything bottle-bound and boozy) hires shifty PI Tut Willow to find dear Gladys. But as Tut pulls back the curtain on Gladys’ checkered past—which includes a few racy pictures that’d make a sailor blush—he also discovers that someone doesn’t want her found. And soon bodies start piling up. Is Sister Rosetta behind the deaths of those out to harm her niece . . . or are Tut and Gladys just pawns in a much darker game?
Full of laugh-out-loud comedy and the darkest of intrigue, Death Wore Gloves is “a lively story, both in and out of bed” from an author with “a keen sense of humor and a sharp writing style . . . Top of the line, this one is” (The New York Times).
“This book could have played well at Minsky’s.” —Publishers Weekly
“There is something of Donald E. Westlake in Mr. Spencer’s makeup. Like Mr. Westlake, he revels in absurdities that perhaps turn out to be not so absurd after all.” —The New York Times
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Full of lascivious, compliant women, ribald comedy, high spirits and a tendency to push vulgarity to its limits, this book could have played well at Minsky's. A raid on the author's mind might uncover an intention to burlesque the mystery form itselfone explanation for the amount of high-caliber wit that has been lavished on a mediocre story line. Chicago detective Tut Willow is hired by Sister Rosetta, an aging lush in nun's clothing, to locate her niece, Gladys Hornsby, a beautiful model. Since Gladys was once a prime romance in Tut's life, he is eager to comply. Once found, Gladys confesses that she is now the mistress of a rich voyeur, who may toss her out if certain pornographic photos she once posed for come to light. She asks Tut to find the pictures, which may be in the hands of a blackmailer. While he's searching, a number of dead bodies start to accumulateall of whom were key figures in Glady's checkered past. Have they been murdered by Sister Rosetta, out to avenge the wrongs done her niece, or are she and Tut merely pawns in a deadly game? Though most readers will guess the outcome well before Tut, the humorous story by the author of Kirby's Last Circus will keep them happily engaged.
