Gumshoe in the Dark

Mortimer Angel, an ex-IRS agent and PI-in-training, finds a scantily-clad girl named Harper Leland on a deserted Nevada highway. She orders him out of his truck at gunpoint but he cuts the valve stem on the rear tire. A cat-and-mouse chase ensues, and Mort finds the attorney general dead in the trunk of a car. His wife, Lucy, is also pulled into the case, which becomes the deadliest of Mort's career.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 09 August 2022
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing

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Nevada's attorney general is missing, and ex-IRS agent and PI-in-training Mortimer Angel stumbles upon a scantily-clad girl named Harper Leland on a deserted Nevada highway during a thunderstorm. She's cold and alone, thirty miles from the nearest town.

Mort offers her a ride, but she orders him out of his truck at gunpoint. He cuts the valve stem on the rear tire, preventing her from taking off. Realizing she's in trouble, Mort wants to help, but with no spare tire, he devises a creative way to get them out of the hills—slowly, precariously balanced on three tires.

On their way down, a rough-looking man stops and asks Mort if he has "seen anyone up in the hills." Mort realizes the guy is after Harper, who is hiding in the truck. Thus begins a cat-and-mouse chase in northeast Nevada that continues even after Mort finds the attorney general—Harper's mother—dead in the trunk of a car.

In time, Mort's wife, Lucy, is also pulled into the case, which becomes the deadliest of Mort's career. The Mortimer Angel Gumshoe Series novels are a perfect mix of John Sanford, Randy Wayne White, and Carl Hiaasen. While all of the novels in the series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:

Gumshoe
Gumshoe for Two
Gumshoe on the Loose
Gumshoe Rock
Gumshoe in the Dark

Weight: 521g
Dimension: 228 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781608095025