Richard Helms

Cordite Wine Richard Helms

Cordite Wine is tough, funny, exciting, and very good!-Robert B. Parker, Mystery Writers of America Grand MasterFINALIST FOR THE 2006 PWA SHAMUS AWARD!Asa Corona, heir to a Napa Valley winery fortune, hires private eye Eamon Gold to stop an extortionist. Corona has been photographed in gay bathhouses in San Francisco, and now blackmailers are demanding money to avoid releasing the pictures to Corona's family. He paid them off once, but now they want more money. Gold agrees to help find the blackmailers, but his search quickly becomes grisly, as his prime suspect is found murdered, and his client disappears. In the search for the killers and his missing client, Gold runs up against closeted television stars, a gay linebacker, frightened politicians, and a mobster who doesn't want his life examined too closely-and is willing to kill to prevent it! Richard Helms writes the classic private eye novel with panache, class, and a self-assured breeziness. Helms and his hero, Eamon Gold, are welcome additions to the genre!-S. J. Rozan, Edgar Award-winning author of Absent Friends