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In
Nine O’Clock Gun, the fourth and final novel of his Gene
Castle, hard-boiled Private Eye series, author Jim Christy once again
mines the streets of vintage Vancouver for the gritty characters and nostalgic
settings that pepper the previous volumes, Shanghai Alley, Princess and
Gore and Terminal Avenue. Castle’s back in his room at the faded
Rose Hotel, back at his table at Ramona’s Cafe, but the woman in
his life has taken her seamed silk stockings and walked. Vancouver is
as dangerous as ever, though, and Castle’s just the man to solve
the string of murders striking a little too close to home.
Jim Christy is a writer,
artist and tireless traveller. The author of twenty books, including poetry,
short stories, novels, travel and biography, Christy has been praised
by writers as diverse as Charles Bukowski and Sparkle Hayter. His travels
have taken him from the Yukon to the Amazon, Greenland to Cambodia. He
has covered wars and exhibited his art internationally. Raised in inner-city
Philadelphia, he moved to Toronto when he was twenty-three years old and
became a Canadian citizen at the first opportunity. A resident of British
Columbia’s Sunshine Coast for many years, he currently resides in
Toronto.
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