02295cam a2200349 i 4500 502799902 TxAuBib 20210525120000.0 200810s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020036126 9781464213250 pbk. 1464213259 pbk. (OCoLC)1183397591 TxAuBib rda Talton, Jon,. City of dark corners / Jon Talton. Naperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press, [2021] 242 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A novel"--Cover. "Phoenix, 1933: A young city with big dreams and dark corners Great War veteran and rising star Gene Hammons lost his job as a homicide detective when he tried to prove that a woman was wrongly convicted of murder to protect a well-connected man. Now a private investigator, Hammons makes his living looking for missing persons-a plentiful caseload during the Great Depression, when people seem to disappear all the time. But his routine is disrupted when his brother-another homicide detective, still on the force-enlists his help looking into the death of a young woman whose dismembered body is found beside the railroad tracks. The sheriff rules it an accident, but the carnage is too neat, and the staging of the body parts too ritual. Hammons suspects it's the work of a "lust murderer"-similar to the serial strangler whose killing spree he had ended a few years earlier. But who was the poor girl, dressed demurely in pink? And why was his business card tucked into her small purse? As Hammons searches for the victim's identity, he discovers that the dead girl had some secrets of her own, and that the case is connected to some of Phoenix's most powerful citizens-on both sides of the law"-- Provided by publisher. 20210525. Private investigators Arizona Fiction. Serial murderers Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Veterans Fiction. Phoenix (Ariz.) Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. TXALB