![]() ![]() In the meantime, his bosses are impatient at the lack of progress on his drug’s investigation and he walks a fine line regarding his job longetivity. He’s approached by a man and offered $20k to kill him.įletcher decides to accept the offer and has a week to uncover the raison d’etre for the mystery man’s deathwish. ![]() Irwin Fletcher, intrepid investigative journalist is masquerading as a beach bum, trying to get a story of the drug’s trade being plied on the small town (name escapes me!) beach. (Don’t you long for those days?) Enough time to develop the main character and get a decent feel for the rest of the cast and create an intriguing plot. (The second in the series, Confess, Fletch won him a second Edgar.)Īn interesting mystery, written at a time when 200 pages was probably the norm for the genre. This book was originally published back in the mid-70’s and won McDonald an Edgar Award for best first novel in 1975. What he discovers is that the proposition is anything but what it seems. So when multimillionaire Alan Stanwyk offers Fletch the job of a lifetime, which could be worth a fortune, he’s intrigued and decides to do a little investigation. Or the divorce lawyers who keep showing up at the office. ![]() Or the expense account items he’s racking up. He’s taking more than a little flack from his editor. Currently he’s living on the beach with the strung-out trying to find to the source of the drugs they live for. He’s an investigative reporter whose methods are a little unorthodox. ![]()
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