Goodey's Last Stand: A Hard Boiled Mystery

Hailed as "...the next best thing to finding a new and unsuspected Raymond Chandler phantasmagoria" (The New Yorker), this hard boiled case might just be Joe Goodey's last. After the San Francisco PD dismisses Joe Goodey from the force and runs him out of town for shooting the mayor's cousin, the ex-detective's career prospects look bleak. But then a local exotic dancer turns up murdered-and more importantly, her secret journal of clients goes missing. The mayor himself extends Joe Goodey t...