William R Burkett: 17 books

Seattle private eye Eddie Hummel gets called onto the case of a family with a missing twenty-year-old daughter. However, there’s more to the Filmore family than meets the eye. Here, in the hardboiled ’70s, Hummel puts his sleuthing skills into high gear and starts rattling a few … family skeletons.

The time was 1959. Walter was a cook at Dawson’s Famous Seafood Restaurant supporting his tubercular wife in an inland sanatorium and their daughter, who lived with her mother’s parents. He was a loner who minded his own business until Corinne came to work as a waitress and he saw a chance to...

Another masterful collection of short fiction from the author of Mean Grey Old Morning, After August, Twin Killing, and Sleeping Planet. Here are impressionistic stories about military days in Europe and budding love in the City