The penny ferry

Charlie "Doc" Adams Mystery #2

by Rick Boyer

Doc Adams. a middle aged oral surgeon always looking for excitement, finds it when he and his policeman brother in law go looking for the courier. He's dead along with his guard dogs but there are enough clues to lead them into trouble with some villainous gangsters and some honest citizens who are trying to revive the old Sacco-Vanzetti case.

Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Mystery Thriller

455 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1984

About the author

A pseudonym used by Richard L Boyer.

Series:
* Charlie "Doc" Adams Mystery

Awards:
Edgar Award
◊ Best Novel (1983): Billingsgate Shoal

Reviews

[William Auman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rick is an exceptional writer and keeps the reader engaged. I am proud to say that I met him back in the 80s and considered him a friend for many years. He recently passed, but left a legacy of work including this novel which is based in Boston and includes historical references that add to its appeal.

[Ed · Rating 4 out of 5]

#2 in the Doc Adams series.

Doc Adams series - Narrator-sleuth ""Doc"" gets into the act this time when he hires super-courier Johnny Robinson to deliver some expensive dental work. . . which never arrives: Doc and his brother-in-law Joe Brindelli (the food-obsessed cop) go looking for Johnny, who's dead (from lethal gas) in his Lowell, Mass., apartment. Why was the messenger killed? Was it because he was also delivering some secret documents about the Sacco-Vanzetti case? So it seems--especially when the owner of those documents also turns up dead. And the killer seems to be a Mafioso hitman. . . but hired by whom? By Italian-Americans afraid that Sacco and Vanzetti will be proven guilty by those documents? Or by someone who doesn't want their innocence proven? The answer lies in the missing microfilm--which Doc keeps looking for (while being shot at and otherwise roughed up).

[Tommyb]

Fiction

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great Doc Adams story.