Peeper

By: Loren D. Estleman

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Synopsis: A priest&’s death leads a Detroit gumshoe into a case of church corruption in this mordantly funny hard-boiled crime novel Ralph Poteet is forty pounds overweight, out of gin, and he hasn&’t seen his gun in weeks. As far as private detectives go, he&’s not much to look at. But he&’s the only one in the building, and that&’s enough for Lyla Dane. A call girl who&’s far better at her job than Ralph is at his, she calls him in the middle of the night because she has a dead monsignor in her bed. After dealing with Lyla&’s deceased client, Ralph tries his hand at blackmail, offering to keep mum about the priest&’s embarrassing demise in exchange for a payoff from the diocese. But when somebody tries to kill Ralph and Lyla, Detroit&’s most unsavory PI is swept into an unholy swarm of deadly secrets that resonates all the way to Washington, DC, and the Vatican. Three-time Shamus Award–winning author Loren D. Estleman delivers a witty, ribald send-up of the hard-boiled detective genre in this action-packed crime novel.