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The Body Snatchers Affair (Carpenter and Quincannon, Bk 3)
The Body Snatchers Affair - Carpenter and Quincannon, Bk 3 Author:Bill Pronzini, Marcia Muller Two missing bodies and two separate investigations take Carpenter and Quincannon from the heights above San Francisco Bay to the depths of Chinatown's opium dens. — For John Quincannon, this is a first: searching a Chinatown opium den for his client's husband, who is missing in the middle of a tong war brewing over the stolen corpse of ga... more »ng leader Bing ah Kee.
Meanwhile, his partner, Sabina Carpenter, searches for the corpse of a millionaire, which was stolen from a sealed family crypt and is being held for ransom.
With the threat of a tong war hanging over the city, and corrupt officials perhaps spurring it on, Carpenter and Quincannon have no time to lose in solving their cases. Is there a connection between the two body snatchers? Or is simple greed the answer to them both?
And why is the enigmatic Englishman who calls himself Sherlock Holmes watching so carefully from the shadows?« less
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