Galveston p.i. Truman Smith, as reluctant as ever, takes on the search for a missing college student, even though Smith has bad memories of his missing persons cases. Still, when Dino asks, Tru listens.The missing person is a boy who went on spring break and never came home. Right now it appears that he's the lucky one, because as Truman discovers -- after he accepts the case, of course -- other student isn't just missing...she's dead!For pure fun and sheer entertainment, it doesn't get much better than Crider's Tru Smith ...
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Galveston p.i. Truman Smith, as reluctant as ever, takes on the search for a missing college student, even though Smith has bad memories of his missing persons cases. Still, when Dino asks, Tru listens.The missing person is a boy who went on spring break and never came home. Right now it appears that he's the lucky one, because as Truman discovers -- after he accepts the case, of course -- other student isn't just missing...she's dead!For pure fun and sheer entertainment, it doesn't get much better than Crider's Tru Smith stories. Highly recommended. -- BooklistCrider turns out finely crafted, engaging mysteries. -- The Armchair Detective
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New in Fine jacket. Book. Signed by Author 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. PI Truman Smith title. Texas. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. "The fifth appearance of Anthony Award-winning Crider's Rockford-like PI, Truman Smith of Galveston, Tex., (following Prairie Chicken Kill)...Persuaded by his reclusive friend Dino to take on a missing-person case, Tru agrees to look into the disappearance of college student Randall Kirbo, missing since spring break, whose parents are displeased with the official investigation. A look at the police files leads Tru to think the police investigation was perfunctory. Then he finds out that local vice queen, Big Al, owned the party house where the youth was last seen and learns that the body of a dead college girl washed up on a local beach after the same break. Linking the two cases, Tru employs his professional skills of lying and foolhardiness to determine Big Al's involvement in the crimes. When Tru discovers that Dino's daughter was at the same party and then someone subsequently shoots at her, he realizes there's more going on than student partying. Tru and Dino are a pleasantly contrary pair and Galveston Island's is an appealing setting..."--Publishers Weekly.
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