The Case of the Hood With No Hands

C. S. Boag

2012年1月 · Xoum Publishing

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Winner of silver in the 2012 Independent Publishers Awards

She’s a surgeon, she’s beautiful and she desperately wants Mister Rainbow to shed some light on her husband’s past. But when he does, she wishes he hadn’t. Because what Rainbow discovers is a handless hood – and a whole lot of murders.

Rainbow’s a retro private eye who keeps himself to himself. He lives (illegally) on a boat in Sydney Harbour, has no identity, and frequents speakeasies. He’s also got a nemesis called Pandora …

The Case of the Hood With No Hands, the first novel in the Mister Rainbow heptalogy, is a modern story with a wink and a nod to the golden age of pulp fiction. With its memorable characters, witty dialogue and fast-paced plot, it signals the arrival of an arresting new Australian talent.

‘Mister Rainbow is that rare creature – a PI with depth. Down at heel, shabby, inept – he’s a born loser, at his best when the odds are stacked against him. Somehow, in a taut contest, he wins.’

Barry Oakley, writer and former literary editor of The Australian

著者について

C. S. Boag is a former journalist who has also grown potatoes, driven taxis and bulldozers and worked in a hamburger bar. He has travelled many times throughout Australia and to France, speaking enough French not to die there. He was a Sydney City Councillor for six years and holds degrees from NSW and Sydney universities as well as postgraduate qualifications from Macquarie. Besides publishing short stories he has also worked as a columnist for Woman’s Day and the Bulletin. He won the Walter Stone Memorial Prize for Literature in 1986. He lives near Bathurst with his wife, Judith, and has five children.