Sam Turner has always had a romantic yearning to be Sam Spade. So he tells his men's group in York that he's a private eye - it's better than admitting he's an unemployed alcoholic. But then one of his friends asks for help in tracking an erring wife. So suddenly Sam is a P.I. And the next thing he knows, he's on the track of a serial killer - with the help of a street-liver and an ex-English teacher pensioner...'Exceedingly cunning, laid back plot...Genial, fast and funny' Philip Oaks, Literary Review 'Something quite unexpected...Entrancing - and funny' Natasha Cooper, TLS
- ISBN10 0575402857
- ISBN13 9780575402850
- Publish Date 10 August 2000 (first published 16 November 1995)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 January 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Orion mass market paperback
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 256
- Language English