Pimp for the Dead (Hardman #4) - Ralph Dennis
Joe R. Lansdale, Ralph Dennis, Paul Bishop
Category: Detective
Tags: Detective, Mystery
Dennis wrote with assurance. His prose was muscular, swift, and highly readable. Joe R. Lansdale, from his introduction, Jim Hardman was an Atlanta cop until he was wrongly accused of corruption and thrown off the force. Now he works as an unlicensed PI, trouble-shooter and bodyguardoften partnered with his drinking buddy Hump Evans, a black, ex-NFL player who supports his playboy lifestyle by working as hired muscle., A small-town farmer hires Hardman to find his teenage daughter who ran off to Atlanta to become a modeland ended up a hooker. Its fast work for Hardman, but shes gunned down minutes after he finds her. To hunt her killer, Hardman and Hump Evans take a deep dive into a bottomless cesspool of vice and greed that could drown them., This new edition includes an introduction by Joe R. Lansdale, author of the Hap & Leonard novels, and an afterword by Paul Bishop, author and retired LAPD homicide detective.
