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Title details for Zigzag by Bill Pronzini - Available

Zigzag

by Bill Pronzini
Nick Sullivan
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Two novellas and two short stories featuring Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Bill Pronzini's iconic Nameless Detective

"Zigzag" is an original novella, in which a safe and simple accident investigation becomes the unraveling of a twisted murder scheme.

"Grapplin'," which first appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, deals with the kind of missing person case that can end in only one of two ways, closure or heartbreak.

In the second short, "Nightscape," listeners discover how, indeed, one thing just leads to another. (This story was first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine as "The Winning Ticket.")

The final work, "Revenant," is another original novella and entangles Nameless in a weird crime with fearful occult overtones.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Nameless Detective

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    May 17, 2016

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781504714563
      • File size: 188567 KB
      • Duration: 06:32:50

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 7, 2016
      This so-called novel in MWA Grandmaster Pronzini’s consistently superior Nameless Detective series (Vixen, etc.) consists of two new novellas and two previously published short stories set in the San Francisco Bay area. In the titular novella, the character known as Nameless investigates a car accident in the Russian River area when he stumbles upon two bodies. It looks like a fatal gun battle over marijuana and money, but when the wife of one of the victims asks him to investigate further, the action zigs and zags to an unexpected and satisfactory conclusion. In “Grapplin’,” street musician Charles Anthony Brown searches for his long-lost niece, only his name isn’t Brown, and she isn’t his niece, and the story is a study in compassion. “Nightscape” is a deftly handled study of how two unrelated things can come together. “Revenant” explores how an evil man can use a belief in the occult to his advantage. Pronzini is economical with his details, providing just the right ones to bring each scene to life. Agent: Dominick Abel, Dominick Abel Literary Agency.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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