Майкл Коллинз0.0 Until he lost his arm, Dan Fortune was known all over Chelsea as a crook with promise.
Since fate forced him to go straight, he has become the resident private eye of this run-down part of Manhattan, chiseling out a career of divorce work and subpoena delivery. But a big case is coming his way. A beat cop is mugged in broad daylight and the only possible witness disappears the next morning. Unsure if he's looking for a witness or a perp, Fortune hunts for the kid, unearthing ugly secrets in a neighborhood he thought he knew well.
Дональд Уэстлейк3.9 Комический детектив о мошенниках и мошенничестве популярного американского прозаика Дональда Уэстлейка `Блаженны скудоумные` - история простодушного, немного нелепого парня Фреда Фитча, которого все надувают и обманывают. Но однажды в его доме раздается телефонный звонок, и потрясенный Фред узнает, что он получил огромное наследство.
Gretchen Sprague0.0 He was smiling. Her fingers were numb with clutching and her heart thudded deafeningly. His lips parted. He spoke. Softly: "Are you all right?" It was grotesque. There seemed no menace in his tone. He sounded-solicitous. His eyes, she noticed with desperate irrelevancy, were clear blue and he was smiling- Smiling- His fingers closed over her wrist. She screamed. High and long and full-throated with terror, her scream flung back the wind and rang into the wide surrounding air.
