Portrait in Smoke
- Authors
- Ballinger, Bill S.
- Publisher
- Signet Book
- Tags
- crime , ocr-editing
- ISBN
- 9780451008978
- Date
- 1950-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.84 MB
- Lang
- en
A noir masterpiece
With its combination of suspense, humor, intrigue and Ballinger's trademark multiple-point narrative, Portrait in Smoke is an exciting thriller about a gorgeous blonde in trouble.
Danny April owns of a small time collection agency in Chicago that specializes in finding people who don’t always want to be found. From the moment he finds in his files a photograph marked "Krassy Almauniski, winner of the Stockyard News beauty contest", he’s obsessed and ends up following an old trail that leads to nothing but trouble.