The Stiletto Gumshoe
About this ebook
Because, of course, it is.
Soon enough, vicious thugs with badges have her on the run in the south-side's dark alleys and bungalow rows, where Sharon's suddenly swept up in a deadly extortion scheme and widespread civic corruption. People have been murdered, and she just might be next.
But it's tough to chase crooks and killers when you're running in heels.
The Stiletto Gumshoe gives a nod to 1950's/1960's private eye series, swapping that era's many iconic hard-drinking, hard-fighting, hard-loving, hard-boiled P.I.'s for a memorable, streetwise twenty-two year old just struggling to get by in a mid-twentieth century man's world that may be right on the cusp of big social changes, but definitely isn't there yet!
About the author
C.J. Thomas is a designer by profession and writer by vocation, a lifelong mystery, crime fiction and film noir fan with a special fondness for classic mid-twentieth century Hollywood crime films, that era's hard-boiled detective novels and crime pulps as well as the commercial illustrators whose work did so much to visualize those genres in paperback and magazine cover art, interior illustrations, movie posters and more. Born and raised in the very same ethnic blue-collar bungalow rows this novel is set in, Thomas is still a Chicagoland resident. For more Sharon Gardner (or Sasha Garodnowicz), look for 'Stiletto Gumshoe' tales in the Noir Quartet series of short story collections and the follow-up to this novel, Lovers And Killers - A Stiletto Gumshoe Novel.
