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This ultimate book of knowledge on Ford's famous pony car has been
updated to include all models through 1973. A technical reference
source for an authentic restoration, judging parts and options
originality, and deciphering serial numbers and data plate codes.
Packed with 1,000+ photos, this book covers all first-generation
Mustangs, from the earliest 1964 1/2 and 1965 models up through
1973.
Three short stories by Tom Corcoran, the author of the Florida
Keys-based Alex Rutledge mystery novels - although Alex does not
appear in these tales. These crime stories are set in Miami, the
Upper Keys and Key West. Good and bad weather, good and bad people
and questionable judgments all lead to surprising twists and
endings.
A pleasant Key West Sunday in January turns into a tropical
nightmare.
It's early. The tourists are still asleep. Freelance and part-time
crime photographer Alex Rutledge bicycles near-vacant streets,
taking pictures for his own enjoyment. But he's challenged at a
restoration district construction site, accused by a developer of
snapping photos for an expose.
An hour later, the city police request Rutledge's forensic photo
expertise. A murder victim has been found - at the same work site.
Detective Dexter Hayes, Jr., is caustic and inept, and Rutledge is
dismissed before he completes his work. An hour later, the county
sheriff, Chicken Neck Liska, asks Alex to photograph another murder
victim, this time on nearby Stock Island.
Rutledge soon suspects that the murders are linked - illogically,
through him. He can't divulge the link to his lover, Teresa Barga,
for fear of compromising her police media liaison job. Alex
questions the detective's blundering, while the cops begin to link
him to the crimes. A powerful real estate broker offers Rutledge an
odd, lucrative job. Friends are threatened. He and Teresa dodge
gunshots. Yet there is no identifiable antagonist, no motive, no
reason for Rutledge to be a hub for evil. To protect himself and
his friends, to avoid arrest - unsuccessfully, at first - he must
scratch for information on an island where few tell the truth.
At the core of "Bone Island Mambo" is betrayal, retribution, and
revenge. The plot twists in surprising directions, and Corcoran's
characters are true characters, never as laid-back as they first
appear. Visit Key West, and hang on for dear life.
Alex Rutledge, freelance and part-time Key West crime scene
photographer, awakes to his first day off in months. Late August,
the off-season, the dog days. Everything's okay until his phone
rings. His old navy buddy, Zack Cahill, now a successful Chicago
banker, is in town and, at 8:00 a.m., drunk in Sloppy Joe's. Zack
demands that Rutledge join him for a celebratory beer. When Alex
arrives at the bar, eight minutes later, Cahill is gone.
The day continues downhill. A high-noon murder in the tourist
district, the ransacked apartment of a local bartender, and the
chance encounter of Abby Womack, Cahill's ex-mistress, combine to
convince Alex that Zach Cahill's disappearance may be linked to all
of these events. An overnight fire and a drive-by shooting the next
morning amplify the strangeness and danger.
By calling in favors from a crew of Key West characters, stepping
aside of law enforcement, and traveling to New Orleans in an
attempt to help his friend, Rutledge will fall deep into a
mysterious range war, a fight for the profits from a
twenty-year-old smuggling deal.
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