- Fiction, Hap Collins (Fictitious character), Leonard Pine (Fictitious character), Serial murders
Intrigue, chilling suspense and hair-raising horror will freeze you to the bones as you read this novel. In the hellish July heat, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine clean out the house of Leonard's just-dead Uncle Chester.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, grave and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Joe R. Lansdale
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 308
- Publisher
- Vintage Books, Einaudi, Mysterious Press
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- Italian, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780759583870
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- Fiction
- Hap Collins (Fictitious character)
- Leonard Pine (Fictitious character)
- Serial murders
- African American men
- Mystery
- Texas, fiction
- Pine, leonard (fictitious character), fiction
- Collins, hap (fictitious character), fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- African americans, fiction
- Serial murders, fiction
“It was July and hot and I was putting out sticks and not thinking one whit about murder.”
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