02701cam a2200457 i 4500 1709866641 TxAuBib 20241112120000.0 240924s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024940970 9798891643161 hardback : alk. paper (OCoLC)1456952364 TxAuBib rda Dugoni, Robert, author. A killing on the hill : a thriller / Robert Dugoni. Center Point Large Print edition. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2024. ©2024. 492 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Regular print version previously published by Amazon Publishing. Includes author's note with background information. "Seattle, 1933. The city is in the grips of the Great Depression, Prohibition, and vice. Cutting his teeth on a small-time beat, hungry and ambitious young reporter William "Shoe" Shumacher gets a tip that could change his career. There's been a murder at a social club on Profanity Hill -- an underworld magnet for vice crimes only a privileged few can afford. The story is going to be front-page news, and Shoe is the first reporter on the scene. The victim, Frankie Ray, is a former prizefighter. His accused killer? Club owner and mobster George Miller, who claims he pulled the trigger in self-defense. Soon the whole town's talking, and Shoe's first homicide is fast becoming the Trial of the Century. The more Shoe digs, the more he's convinced nothing is as it seems. Not with a tangle of conflicting stories, an unlikely motive, and witnesses like Ray's girlfriend, a glamour girl whose pretty lips are sealed. For now. In a city steeped in Old West debauchery, Shoe's following every lead to a very dangerous place, one that could bring him glory and fame -- or end his life."-- Provided by publisher. 20241112. Journalists Fiction. Homicide Fiction. Organized crime Washington Seattle Fiction. Depressions 1929 Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Large type books. Seattle (Wash.) Fiction. United States History 1919-1933 Fiction. large print books. aat Gangster fiction. lcgft Historical fiction. fast Thrillers (Fiction.) fast large print books. aat Livres en gros caractères. rvmgf