Deadfall

by Sarah Stegall

Private investigator Claire Turnbull meets the ghost of Old West lawman Wyatt Earp over a cooling corpse in San Francisco, and is dismayed to discover that only she can see or hear him. Reluctantly, she teams with the ghost to solve a murder mystery that threatens her own who killed a bigamous thief and stole a 150-year-old ship's log? Was it just another in a long string of cons, or is there really a hoard of gold hidden in San Francisco? The hunt takes Claire and Wyatt from the high rises of the modern city into a murky past buried under the city.

294 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 2011

Reviews

[Janie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book .
Historical fiction, with a great sassy private detective . She really is a brassy broad.
( made me think of a female Sam Spade)
Add in a sophisticated, famous , ghost , Marshall..  Wyatt Earp, and this book is a great ride and mystery.
Witty and clever . Fast paced.
Also learned so much about San Francisco.The Embrcadero, The J.Porter Shaw Library of San Francisco , the ships buried under San Francisco.
To think of all those men sailing in from Asia to find gold,  abandoning their ships, and later building over those ships .
Makes we want to visit that city again.