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The Cavanaugh Quest

Thomas Gifford

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#4767 of 8,085 books · #1549 in Crime & Thriller

Shortlisted for the Edgar Award for Best Novel (1977).

The Cavanaugh Quest was nominated for the Edgar Award. Reporter Paul Cavanaugh is coming home from an afternoon tennis match when he sees an ambulance outside his building's door. A half hour earlier, the mild-mannered Larry Blankenship walked into the lobby, said hello to the doorman, and blew his brains out in front of the elevator bank, leaving behind a note apologizing for the mess. Cavanaugh retreats to his apartment to forget this disturbing scene, thinking the story is over when the police take away the body. But the suicide is only the beginning. A knot of death is tied tight around Blankenship's wife, Kim, an ice-cold beauty from the backwoods of northern Minnesota. As he investigates the string of deaths, Cavanaugh discovers a decades-old atrocity that may explain why the men who know Kim vanish faster than a sunny day in Minneapolis.

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Publisher
Head of Zeus
ISBN-13
9780345256539
Topics
Murder investigationSmall town secretsFemme fatale

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