The Resource The do-right, Lisa Sandlin
The do-right, Lisa Sandlin
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The item The do-right, Lisa Sandlin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item The do-right, Lisa Sandlin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- 1959. Delpha Wade killed a man who was raping her; the second man got away. After fourteen years in prison, she's out. It's 1973, and though no one wants to hire a parolee, she lands a secretarial job with Tom Phelan, an ex-roughneck turned neophyte private eye. Together these two pry into the dark corners of Beaumont, a blue-collar, Cajun-influenced town dominated by Big Oil. A mysterious client plots mayhem against a small petrochemical company; searching for a teenage boy, Phelan uncovers the lair of a serial killer. And Delpha looks into the eyes of her rapist, the one who got away
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 297 pages
- Isbn
- 9781941026199
- Label
- The do-right
- Title
- The do-right
- Statement of responsibility
- Lisa Sandlin
- Subject
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- Murder
- trueDetermination in women
- Suspense fiction
- Murder -- Fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- truePrivate investigators
- trueHardboiled fiction
- Parolees -- Fiction
- trueYoung men -- Relations with older women
- Detective and mystery fiction
- trueWomen former convicts
- trueRape victims
- Rape -- Fiction
- true1970s -- 1970 -- 1979
- Prisoners -- Fiction
- truePersonal assistants
- Rape
- trueInvestigations
- Fiction
- Parolees
- trueBeaumont, Texas
- trueTexas
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Prisoners
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 1959. Delpha Wade killed a man who was raping her; the second man got away. After fourteen years in prison, she's out. It's 1973, and though no one wants to hire a parolee, she lands a secretarial job with Tom Phelan, an ex-roughneck turned neophyte private eye. Together these two pry into the dark corners of Beaumont, a blue-collar, Cajun-influenced town dominated by Big Oil. A mysterious client plots mayhem against a small petrochemical company; searching for a teenage boy, Phelan uncovers the lair of a serial killer. And Delpha looks into the eyes of her rapist, the one who got away
- Summary
- Freshly out of prison, Delpha lands a secretarial job with private eye Tom Phelan and together the two pry into the dark corners of a blue-collar, Cajun-influenced town dominated by "Big Oil."
- Award
- Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel, 2016.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10451406
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sandlin, Lisa
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- Delpha Wade and Tom Phelan novels
- Series volume
- 0001
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Prisoners
- Parolees
- Murder
- Rape
- Murder
- Parolees
- Prisoners
- Rape
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The do-right, Lisa Sandlin
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn912507964
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 297 pages
- Isbn
- 9781941026199
- Lccn
- 2015024949
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)912507964
- Label
- The do-right, Lisa Sandlin
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn912507964
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 297 pages
- Isbn
- 9781941026199
- Lccn
- 2015024949
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)912507964
Subject
- true1970s -- 1970 -- 1979
- trueBeaumont, Texas
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- trueDetermination in women
- Fiction
- trueHardboiled fiction
- trueInvestigations
- trueMen/women relations
- Murder
- Murder -- Fiction
- Parolees
- Parolees -- Fiction
- truePersonal assistants
- Prisoners
- Prisoners -- Fiction
- truePrivate investigators
- Rape
- Rape -- Fiction
- trueRape victims
- Suspense fiction
- trueTexas
- trueWomen former convicts
- trueYoung men -- Relations with older women
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