The Painted Gun by Bradley Spinelli PDF

"[In] this tough and delightfully remarkable crime novel...Spinelli deftly segues from one style to another--from hard-boiled noir to paranoid mystery, puzzle secret (with each riddle logically explained), secret agent caper, and finally to anything evocative of Bogart and Bacall. Spinelli is well a expertise to watch."
--Publishers Weekly

"An unofficial San Francisco shamus whose story is decided in 1997 yet whose center is caught in 1947 hunts for the world's so much elusive lacking person...'I hold assembly those who finish up dead,' aptly observes the narrator/hero...If you need extra the place that got here from, Spinelli is your man."
--Kirkus Reviews

"Treasure the interesting secret and its haunting solution."
--Booklist

"A neat little post-modern mash-up of Chandler and Hammett...[Spinelli's] bought wit and magnificence up the wazoo."
--Thrilling Detective

"You can think the guy that wrote that learn his Chandler and perhaps his Macdonald as well."
--Mystery File

"A enjoyable romp of an old-school detective novel with a couple of post-modern tweaks. it really is jam-packed with fist fights, shoot outs, and clever cracks, taking a number of extraordinary twists that end up time and again to be poignant."
--MysteryPeople

"A vintage noir...Spinelli manages to maintain us on our toes."
--Pif Magazine

"A marvelous learn, lots of twists and turns...Highly recommended."
--Col's legal Library

"It's vintage noir with a bit expertise that becomes a global mystery. even though it is a risky bounce blending either genres, writer Bradley Spinelli succeedsThe Painted Gun will maintain readers hooked at each page."
--Underrated Reads

"One of the easiest features of The Painted Gun is its feel of position. The seedier facets of San Francisco are delivered to lifestyles with all of the anticipated characters...A magnificent diversion."
--Confessions of a Cyberlibrarian

"An exciting read."
--Life in the Pages

"The Painted Gun is hardboiled like they do not make anymore. Whiplash twists, razor-sharp prose, an addictive narrative--I could not learn it speedy enough."
--Rob Hart, writer of South Village

It's 1997 on the sunrise of the electronic age in San Francisco. Ex-journalist and suffering alcoholic David "Itchy" Crane's fledgling "information consultancy" company is getting slowly buried through undesirable good fortune, undesirable judgements, and the transforming into presence of the net. earlier than he can thoroughly self-destruct, a personal investigator deals him fifty grand to discover a lacking woman named Ashley. Crane takes the activity as the money’s correct and as the merely clue to her disappearance is a dead-on oil portrait of Crane himself--painted through the mysterious lacking woman whom he hasn't ever met. As Crane's look for Ashley turns into an obsession, he stumbles upon a chain of murders for which he starts to worry he is being framed...

With pitch-perfect discussion, an exquisitely crafted plot, and a stylized, deadpan nod to vintage hard-boiled writers like James Ellroy, Elmore Leonard, and Dashiell Hammett, The Painted Gun introduces Bradley Spinelli as a strength to be reckoned with in modern noir fiction.