Hugo, Richard.

Death and the Good Life. A Mystery.

New York: St. Martin's, 1981. First Printing of the First US Edition. Hard Cover. A Fine unread copy in a Very Good, price clipped dust jacket with a sunned spine The Northwest poet's only novel. Al Barnes is a good but admittedly mushy hearted homicide cop who trades his stressful Seattle beat for a small-town deputy's life in rural Montana. The peace is disrupted when a local fisherman and a mill owner are found gruesomely axed. Barnes is drawn into a twenty-year-old unsolved case near Portland, adding to an already puzzling search through murky secrets and sweeping him up in the decadent -good life- of his suspects. Item #28152
ISBN: 031218588X

Price: $100.00