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"Southern Bound gets it right! A great blend of ghosts and gumshoes. If you like haunting mysteries you'll love Southern Bound!" - Edgar-nominated author, Joel Goldman
When Max Porter discovers his office is haunted by the ghost of a 1940s detective, he does the only sensible thing ... he startsā¦
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Have you ever read a book and said to yourself, dang, I wish Iād have thought of that? Well thatās just what happened when I found this book. Jaffeās gumshoe, Marshall Drummond, is a detective straight from the 1940s. The only problem? Itās not 1940 and Drummond is, well, deadādead as a doornail. But like a true hardboiled detective, Drummond doesnāt let a little thing like the big sleep stop him. Instead, he haunts the office of Max Porter, making the manās life far more interestingāand intriguingāthan it otherwise would have ever been. Another great thing about this bookā¦
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