Buck Baxter, Love Detective (THE BUCK BAXTER DETECTIVE AGENCY #1) by Robin Knight EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Robin Knight
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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Picture this—
Wilde City, 1924, a crane on the top of every skyscraper, a party in
every club, a romance on every dance floor, a shooting every night, a
broken heart on every street corner and a dirty secret behind every window
with the curtains drawn. It’s a city crammed with tough guys, dangerous
women, loud jazz, and illegal booze; the kinda place where everyone carries
a hipflask in their pocket and a spare pistol in their sock, no matter whether
they’re dealing opium in a dark alley in Little Chinatown or dancing up a
storm at the Rainbow Palace atop Wilde City Tower. You want a good time,
you come to Wilde City; you wanna last a long time, you go someplace
else. Because here in Wilde City there’s only three types of people: the
lovers, the famous… and the dead.
Me, I ain’t famous, and last time I checked, I wasn’t dead either. And as
for love, well I ain’t felt that in a long, long time. Sure, I’ve blown more
than just money on the rent boys at the Velvet Viper; Satan knows there’s
more than a few holes to slither down in that sinful snake pit. But I’d never
really had anyone that I’d consider… cherished. Well at least not since I
was a boy. But that’s a story for later.
So if I ain’t a lover, and I ain’t famous or dead, I guess that sorta makes
me a nobody. Which is kinda what you need to be in my line of work. The
name’s Buck Baxter, Private Detective. I stay low and keep my eyes open. I
watch every shadow. I listen for every footstep, every whisper. I don’t make
friends, I don’t make enemies, and I sure as hell don’t fall in love. I just get
the job done fast, collect my payment, and move on to the next case.
At least, that’s how the game used to go.
It all changed the night he blew into town, announcing himself in a
blaze of fireworks and a shebang so big it seemed the whole of Wilde City
descended upon his glittering nightclub to hail the new prince of parties.
His name was Holden Hart, and maybe I never would have met him if I
didn’t get the telephone call from one Miss Winnipeg Whitmore.
“Mr. Baxter? Are you Mr. Buck Baxter?”
“Speaking.” The clock on the wall of the Buck Baxter Detective Agency
told me it was just before nine in the evening. I was at my desk in my
rundown old office that doubled as my apartment, sitting there stark naked
but for my trusty black trilby.
The night was so damn hot and sticky you
could pour it in a barrel and slap a molasses label on it. I couldn’t stack
enough ice in my glass of gin. The cannabis I’d smoked earlier was starting
to sweat from my pores. If I held my face any closer to the electric fan on
my desk, it might have shaved the stubble off my cheek.
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