Somebody Owes Me Money
SOMETIMES WINNING FEELS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE LOSING.Cab driver Chet Conway was hoping for a good tip from his latest fare, the sort he could spend. But what he got was a tip on a horse race. Which might have turned out okay, except that when he went to collect his winnings Chet found his bookie...
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SOMETIMES WINNING FEELS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE LOSING.Cab driver Chet Conway was hoping for a good tip from his latest fare, the sort he could spend. But what he got was a tip on a horse race. Which might have turned out okay, except that when he went to collect his winnings Chet found his bookie lying dead on the living room floor. Chet knows he had nothing to do with it – but just try explaining that to the cops, to the two rival criminal gangs who each think Chet’s working for the other, and to the dead man’s beautiful sister, who has flown in from Las Vegas to avenge her brother’s murder…
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780843959628 (0843959622)
ASIN: 0843959622
Publish date: 2008-06-01
Publisher: Hard Case Crime
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
"There weren't any police cars stopped out front, so I parked by a hydrant--there are no parking places in New York, the last one was taken in 1948..."Page 32A fun Donald E. Westlake book that may not be amongst his all-time best--but even run of the mill Westlake is pretty good. Somebody Owes Me Mo...
Chet Conway, a cab driver, gets a tip on a horse instead of money from a customer. The horse is a longshot but Chet puts 35 bucks on him. The horse winds up winning but when Chet goes to collect, his bookie is dead and everyone seems to think he did it. He goes on the run with the dead bookie's s...
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