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A Shot in the Dark

Richard Powell

Johnny Edwards is fishing when he gets Tony’s letter from Cuba. Tony is in trouble and urgently needs Johnny down in Havana. But Johnny stallsashamed to admit to his former war buddy that he has been living a life of indifferent ease and indulgenceand when he does arrive, he finds Tony has just been murdered. His boredom replaced with thoughts of revenge, Johnny decides to try and find the murderer himself. And that’s when he runs into Ellen McCartertrim, slim, with sun-streaked haira helluva distraction. But not enough to sidetrack Johnny, who continues to follow the murderer’s trail up to Fort Myers, Florida...where the first person he runs into is slim, trim Ellen!

GenresEnglish & College SuccessEnglishFiction

100 pages, 3 editions

English edition · First published 1952 by Simon & Schuster · ISBN 9781440555640

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Editions

3 editions

English

  • A Shot in the Dark · Simon & Schuster · 2012 · ISBN 9781440555640 This page
  • A Shot in the Dark · Simon & Schuster · 1952 · ISBN 9781933586182

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  • A shot in the dark. · 1952

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