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When beautiful Lisa Franklin is found brutally murdered, her body dumped like so much rubbish, Lt. Hastings sighs and wonders aloud at the terrible waste. The victim was young, from a wealthy and respected family, with seemingly everything to live for. Hastings chalks it up with all the other senseless murders he sees in the course of a month, a year, a lifetime, of policing. As he investigates, though, it soon becomes clear that Franklin was far from just another innocent victim - but was she really a vengeful blackmailer? And is the murderer one of her own high-powered lovers from whom Franklin may have been extorting money? Or is it one of her reckless and feckless housemates, high on the drugs they all shared and fueled by jealousy over her many lovers?
Lisa Franklin's wild life provides too few clues and too many suspects. Her journals, however, containing fragments of poetry and ruminations, hint at a fragile brilliance behind the brittle facade and draw Hastings to her posthumously.
Lisa Franklin's wild life provides too few clues and too many suspects. Her journals, however, containing fragments of poetry and ruminations, hint at a fragile brilliance behind the brittle facade and draw Hastings to her posthumously.
- GenresMystery
Hardcover
First published January 1, 1993
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About the author
Collin Wilcox
57 books3 followersAka Carter Wick
Collin Wilcox was an American mystery writer.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, his first book was The Black Door (1967), featuring a sleuth possessing extrasensory perception. His major series of novels was about Lieutenant Frank Hastings of the San Francisco Police Department. Titles in the Hastings series included Hire a Hangman, Dead Aim, Hiding Place, Long Way Down and Stalking Horse. Two of his last books, Full Circle and Find Her a Grave, featured a new hero-sleuth, Alan Bernhardt, an eccentric theater director. Wilcox also published under the pseudonym "Carter Wick".
Wilcox's most famous series-detective was the television character Sam McCloud, a New Mexico deputy solving New York crime. The "urban cowboy" was played by Dennis Weaver in the 1970-1977 TV series McCloud. Wilcox wrote three novelizations based on scripts from the series: McCloud (1973), The New Mexican Connection (1974), and The Park Avenue Executioner (1975).
Collin Wilcox was an American mystery writer.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, his first book was The Black Door (1967), featuring a sleuth possessing extrasensory perception. His major series of novels was about Lieutenant Frank Hastings of the San Francisco Police Department. Titles in the Hastings series included Hire a Hangman, Dead Aim, Hiding Place, Long Way Down and Stalking Horse. Two of his last books, Full Circle and Find Her a Grave, featured a new hero-sleuth, Alan Bernhardt, an eccentric theater director. Wilcox also published under the pseudonym "Carter Wick".
Wilcox's most famous series-detective was the television character Sam McCloud, a New Mexico deputy solving New York crime. The "urban cowboy" was played by Dennis Weaver in the 1970-1977 TV series McCloud. Wilcox wrote three novelizations based on scripts from the series: McCloud (1973), The New Mexican Connection (1974), and The Park Avenue Executioner (1975).
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