Die Again, Macready

280 Pages·2013·2.77 MB·English

by  Livingston Jack

"Joe Binney, a private detective who is totally deaf...is a likable
sleuth who doesn't need anyone's sympathy as he makes his silent
way in a wicked world of love an—d violence."
Chicago TribuneBook World
A MURDER
MYSTERY
i
i
OH LMNGSTOI
|
ISBN 0-31S-emfll-1 >$13-T5
DieAgain,
Macready
Joe Binney is deaf, but hell need all his
senses to keep himselfalive as the detective
prowess he displayed in his stunningdebut
A
in Piece ofthe Silence is tested again in
Die Again, Macready.
Binney sets offon a routine case to find
Arnold Pelfrey, the business manager of
actor William Macready—missing with
Macready's quarter of a million dollars.
But it quickly becomes anything but rou-
tine when Binney finds Pelfrey hanging
from a gas pipe in a seedy Times Square
hotel, minus the money. That money was
Macready's only hope for financial and
artistic independence; now that it's gone,
the pressure on him to take a part in a TV
soap threatensto turn abrilliantactorinto
a network puppet. But if Pelfrey stole the
money, where is it, and why did he hang
himself?Or was Pelfrey brutally murdered
by someone out to get Macready?
Binneyfacesmoreunansweredquestions
after he's beaten and left for dead in that
same hotel. And when a charred body
is
found in Macready's torched apartment,
Binney seeks his friend's murderer with a
vengeance that rushes this complex and
involving tale to its surprising conclusion,
demonstrating once again that Jack Liv-
ingston is amasterofcharacterand action.
BOSTON
PUBLIC
LIBRARY

DieAgain, Macready

DieAgain,
Macready
JACK LIVINGSTON
ST. martin's press
NEW YORK
The events and characters in this book are totally the products ofthe author's
imagination and have no relationship to any persons living or dead.
DIE AGAIN, macready. Copyright © 1984 by Jack Livingston. All rights
reserved. Printed intheUnited StatesofAmerica. Nopartofthisbookmay be
used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission
except in the case ofbriefquotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.
For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York,
N.Y. 10010.
Library ofCongress Cataloging in Publication Data
Livingston, Jack.
Die again, Macready.
I. Title.
PS3562.I937D5 1984 813'.54 83-17738
ISBN 0-312-20981-9
First Edition
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
To my daughters, Laura andJuliet