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    No Questions Asked

    By Ross Thomas

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    With eviction looming, St. Ives searches for a big payday and a rare book.

    Philip St. Ives has no love for New York's drafty, broken-down Adelphi Hotel, but he is in no mood to be evicted from it. His cash dwindling, he is happy to learn about a job that calls for his specific talents as a mediator between thieves and their victims. It sounds like the set-up to a bad joke: A thief, an insurance salesman, and the Library of Congress call Philip's lawyer to ask about a stolen copy of Pliny's Historia Naturalis. To find it, Philip will risk becoming history himself.

    The book was stolen on its way from the Library of Congress to California, and the detective guarding it vanished as well. Mired in snow-choked Washington, DC, St. Ives must arrange for a pair of ransoms to avoid becoming a victim of book collectors who value a nice first edition over an investigator's life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHead of Zeus
    Release dateJun 1, 2014
    ISBN9781784088842
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    Ross Thomas

    ROSS THOMAS is the author of over twenty-five critically acclaimed novels. His debut, The Cold War Swap, was written in under six weeks and won an Edgar Award for Best First Novel, and Briarpatch won an Edgar Award for Best Novel. He's also written under the name Oliver Bleeck. Thomas died in 1995 at the age of 69 in Santa Monica, California.

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    • 5/5
      I don't know if it was intended to be the final volume of the series, but either way it is a fitting capstone.
    • 5/5
      As I work my way through Ross Thomas' works, I thought I'd try one of his 'writing as Oliver Bleeck'... Excellent. Philip St. Ives is a character much like the one from the old TV series 'The Saint'... This story surrounds the theft of an old collectable book of great value. In another's hands, I would be bored by this story, but Thomas makes it very compelling.