American Blue
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A Thomas Watrous Mystery

         For more than 50 years the Thomas Watrous stories of comedy, tragedy and mystery have been shared with a rather wide circle of personal friends of  “the three-fingered hack” who wrote them. One of the most memorable characters in modern fiction is the pipe-smoking detective who seeks only the truth and trusts in justice to be administered by each person to himself.  Here is a spine-chilling tale of murder, dishonesty, the search for truth, the meaning of life and love undying.  Set on the Left Bank of the 1960’s Bohemian Paris, the drug-glazed Spanish Island of Ibiza and in the labyrinthine corridors and rented chambers of The Chelsea Hotel in New York City during a scandal that shook the governments of three nations on two continents, it comes down to the senseless murder of a little girl and the tenacity of the lone nose who follows her case from before it started until after its last gasp.  But then Thomas Watrous is driven and drawn by a relentless force - American Blue.

“Masterful!  Breathless! An all-time page-turner!”
- Our Reader

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Scheduled Publication Date:
High Noon
Tuesday, September 23, 2003

Trade Paperback, Stitch Bound, Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
280 pages, ISBN # 0-9661961-5-5
Retail: $16.95 + Shipping/Handling $3

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