- Organized crime, Christmas stories, Fiction, Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)
On Christmas Eve [in Wichita], a mob lawyer is skipping town with the cash. But in this boozy, neo-noir world–James M. Cain meets George V. Higgins–the best-laid plans of bagmen turn brutal.” –The Dallas Morning News
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Classical in form, grave, plot-driven and relentless.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Scott Phillips
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 217
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books, Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Pub
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786185115
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“At four-fifteen on a cold, dry Christmas Eve a nervous middle-aged man in an expensive overcoat walked bare-headed into the Midtown Tap Room and stood at the near end of the bar with his membership card in hand, waiting for the afternoon barmaid to get off the phone.”
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