Rat City

by Curt Colbert

Overview

• Who is Big Ed and why does he want detective Jake Rossiter pushing up daisies? To find out. Rossiter- with the help of his able bodied girl Friday, Miss Jenkins - digs through layers of vice and violence in Seattle's seamy underbelly, until he uncovers a case of corruption and prejudice that pits him toe to-toe with hysterical dames, out of town muscle and the entire Rat City police force.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781603815611
Publisher:	Epicenter Press Inc.
Publication date:	05/12/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	314
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Curt Colbert is a Vietnam vet, who is also a poet, an avid student of history, and a boxing fan. He has written three hardboiled, historical PI novels set in Seattle in the 1940's, the first of which, Rat City, was nominated for a Shamus Award. He was the editor of Seattle Noir, an anthology of noir short stories set in Seattle. In addition, under the penname, Waverly Curtis, Curt co-authored five humorous mysteries in the Barking Detective series with his writing partner, Waverly Fitzgerald. Curt lives in the Seattle suburb of Mountlake Terrace with his understanding wife, Stephanie, and under the thrall of their somewhat demanding cat, Miss Kitty.

Editorial Reviews

"A raw, hard-boiled time machine back to blue collar Seattle in the '40s, with a jolt of Jackson Street jazz that burns when it goes down, like a good slug of rye. Rat City is fly!" Paul de Barros

" With the mere stroke of a pen Curt Colbert may have resurrected the late Sam Spade in the form of one Jake Rossiter" Norm Harris

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