Bernhardt's Edge - Hardcover
Alan Bernhardt, an actor and playwright moonlighting for a private detective agency, races against time to find a missing woman before the Detroit hitman who killed her roommate, a small-time hood, can reach her
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Wilcox's latest California thriller marks the debut of actor-playwright Alan Bernhardt of San Francisco as a freelance private eye. A rehearsaland his flirtation with new cast member Pamela Brettis interrupted by a message from Hubert Dancer, head of the detective agency that gives the actor outside jobs. Accepting a supposedly brief assignment, Bernhardt leaves town to trace Betty Fields, missing from her post as art consultant to a corporation of venture capitalists. The firm has hired Dancer's agency to find Betty and her lover, Nick Ames, but after doing so and reporting back to Dancer, Bernhardt is outraged to hear that Ames has been stalked and murdered. He breaks with Dancer, going off on his own to find the fugitive again before she also is "neutralized." Betty knows that her life is endangered by the real power behind her corporate employer, reclusive, amoral billionaire Daniel DuBois, who is determined to prevent her from exposing his guilty secrets. When Bernhardt catches up with Betty a second time, the professional killer makes a move that creates the story's stunning climax. This is a remarkably well-handled mystery with strong characters. Readers will want more tales of the thespian and Pamela, his new romantic lead.
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- PublisherTor Books
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0312930763
- ISBN 13 9780312930769
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages311
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Blue textured boards and spine with silver title and author on spine. Full number line 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 311 pages. As far as Alan Bernhardt knew, Betty's boss wanted to talk to her about something. All Bernhardt had to do was locate her. A simple assignment, really; it only takes him two days to find the young woman and her boyfriend, Nick Ames, at the little motel. A phone call to Herbert Dancer to let him know, and then Bernhardt was done. Betty Giles was hiding. And after making his call, the detective knows why: A few hours after locating her, Bernhardt find out that her lover has been murdered. Alan doesn't know if the agency was aware of what he would be doing, but now that he's discovered that he was hired to finger someone for a hit, Bernhardt is angry. Betty Giles is running. She knows she's the next target, and she knows why. It had been Nick's idea - a little blackmail tied in to some major art thefts. They keep trying to tell her that everything can be worked out, that it will all be okay. But Betty Giles knows better. So does Alan Bernhardt. And so does the killer, who tracks Betty from northern California to the countryside around Palm Springs, one step behind - then one step ahead - of the detective, If anyone is to survive, Bernhardt will have to keep his edge. Seller Inventory # 608221
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