{"product_id":"headed-for-a-hearse-9781613162804","title":"Headed for a Hearse","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Westland's date with the executioner is just around the corner when he finally decides to fight the murder rap sending him to the electric chair. Framed for his wife's grisly demise, Westland is in a bind, and his last hope is Bill Crane, a booze-soaked detective who's as ruthless with a quip as he is when trawling the streets for Chicago's most brutal criminal element.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrane's got just six days to suss out the real killer--he sets his sights on a cast of oddball characters, aided by a lime squeezer, a quart of whiskey, a monkey wrench, a taxicab, a stopwatch, and a deep sea diver... but in 1930s Chicago, everyone's got a secret, and the pressure is on for Crane to separate the dangerous from the truly homicidal before it's too late. Chicago crime beat journalist-turned-novelist Jonathan Latimer blends hardboiled detective fiction with a shot of screwball comedy in the fast-moving, realistic 1935 baffler Headed for a Hearse, an exciting combination of the macabre and the humorous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes discussion guide questions for use in book clubs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e American Mystery Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781613162804","brand":"Jonathan Latimer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41500347760821,"sku":"9781613162804","price":22.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_c8753ee3-0a80-4659-8af6-a93aa147d285.jpg?v=1641275914","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/headed-for-a-hearse-9781613162804","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}