Last Ditch: A Leo Waterman Mystery
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (911 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00F2I2GXE |
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| Number of Pages | : | 359 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Part of a series. The characters are hapless," according to Robert Crawford. Part of a series. The characters are hapless, but humorous. You care about them and root for them.. "This book is a very quick read and I love the humor and jest he writes these stories with" according to Kindle Dave. This book is a very quick read and I love the humor and jest he writes these stories with.. Five Stars This Leo is great! Read them all! Waiting for the next, always a good read.
With the evidence stacked against "Wild Bill" Waterman, his son feels compelled to clear his name by digging up the past--and trying not to get buried beneath it.. In his fifth outing, Seattle's most uncompromising sleuth finds that the laughs are all on him after making a startling discovery at home.P.I. but as they tear down a dilapidated greenhouse, the motley wrecking crew uncovers a human skeleton that belongs to Leo's late father's most despised enemey: a muck-raking, ultra-conservative journalist who vanished twenty years a
What he finds out--from Wild Bill's old driver, an ex-cop called Bermuda Schwartz, and other assorted ghosts from the past--provides a wild and often touching story that combines recent headlines (about the smuggling of Chinese immigrants) with moments of personal pain. --Dick Adler. That same combination is present in Ford's other books about Waterman: Slow Burn, Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca?, The Bum's Rush, and Cast in Stone. And precisely because both a starchy relative and the