Keller's Fedora
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A NEW HAT.
FOR A NEW HIT.
Happily retired, living under a new name with his wife and daughter, Keller thought he was out of the murder-for-hire business. Until he got the call from his old employer, asking him to tackle the most unusual assignment of his career. The client's wife is having an affair, and Keller's been hired to get rid of her lover. But who is this mysterious lover? The husband doesn't know—he only knows that she has one, and he wants the man dead.
It's an opportunity for Keller to try his hand at the private eye game, investigating the adulterous spouse. And yes, he does buy himself a new hat for the occasion, a fedora worthy of any film noir detective. But in this puzzling situation, with more than one potential lover in the picture and more than one potential solution, is Keller going to be a black hat or a white hat—or something in between…?
One of MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block's greatest creations, Keller is the two-time Edgar Award-winning star of Hit Man, Hit List, Hit Parade, Hit and Run, and Hit Me. “Keller's Fedora” is the first new Keller story in more than three years.
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A fresh contract to kill takes MWA Grand Master Block's stamp-collecting hit man, Keller, last seen in 2013's Hit Me, from his home in New Orleans via Amtrak to Chicago. Keller reluctantly tells his daughter that the trip is philatelic in nature. In Chicago, Keller needs to act like a private eye and ID the mark himself. The client wants his wife's mystery lover found and eliminated, and the first order of business is the stakeout and the shadowing. Fortunately, Keller just bought his first fedora and is feeling like Humphrey Bogart. Block amuses as always with Keller's light internal banter, making even the assassination somewhat droll. The hit is never the end, however. Keller has been seen in town and decides he needs to return to the scene of the crime and tie up loose ends before they unravel and jeopardize his shadowy career. This novella is sure to delight the author's many fans.
