Dead man's ticket : a novel of the streets and the woods / by Peter Trower.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trower, Peter, 1930-2017.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lumbering--Fiction.

Lumbering.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

237 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub., [1996]

Summary:

BC' s favorite bush poet unwraps his second novel, a noirish mystery tour through unfamiliar and dangerous terrain. "Dead Man' s Ticket" is part logger' s story, part thriller, and all page-turner: Terry Belshaw, the protagonist of Tower' s acclaimed first novel "Grogan' s Cafe," makes his way through the seamy world of Vancouver' s tenderloin district of the 1950s. He rubs shoulders with heroin junkies and zoot-suited hoodlums, whose hip jargon and shady activities fascinate him. When his best friend Frankie drops dead surprisingly, Belshaw is determined to uncover the truth about his buddy' s death, but first he has to put in time at a logging camp in Frankie' s place - on an unlucky "dead man' s ticket." Back in Vancouver' s Skid Road, Terry gathers clues and becomes entangled with Frankie' s beautiful girlfriend Carlotta - who seems to know more about Frankie' s death than she is willing to let on - and a notorious underworld punk who is Terry' s own "doppleganger." When Belshaw meets his nemesis in the novel' s riveting climax, he is confronted with the dark side of himself. Only one side survives. "Dead Man' s Ticket" offers a rare glimpse of fascinating netherworlds, from the Press Club where a buxom chanteuse warbles "Moonlight in Vermont" to Miranda' s Cafe, known to its patrons as the Junkyard. Trower deftly recreates Vancouver' s Skid Road of 1952, with its jumping nightclub scene and intriguing cast of loggers, winos, hookers, hustlers and rounders.

ISBN:

1550171496 :

OCLC:

35927547