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Levellers Press
announces the publication of Gerald W. McFarland’s T.T. Mann, Ace Detective
August 2018, 239 pages. ISBN: 978-1-945473-67-8. Paperback price: $17.95
San Francisco, 1955: An astonishingly thin detective takes
on three tough cases.
Six feet tall and weighing only
twenty-two pounds, T.T. Mann is the perfect protagonist for this light-hearted
take on the detective genre. Unlike the hard-boiled private investigators of
noir detective fiction, T.T. is a gentle fellow who is shy with women, but he’s
not without resources, notably his excellent martial arts skills. With help
from his girlfriend Rosie and his brother Flat Mann, T.T. deals entertainingly
with three dangerous and daunting cases that arise in San Francisco ca. 1955.
In “Blondes Are Trouble,” T.T. comes
into possession of a list of policemen and politicians on the take from the
city’s crime kingpin, Biggie Fingers, a list Biggie’s henchmen are trying to
retrieve by any means necessary.
In “The Angry Heiress,” T.T. is
hired by a rich, drop-dead beauty to gather dirt on her estranged husband so
she can obtain a divorce he is contesting. As T.T. digs deeper, his
investigation uncovers a tangle of shady activities involving a circle of
wealthy businessmen who respond violently when he begins to snoop into their
affairs.
In “Mother’s Way,” Rosie is visited
by her overbearing mother, who has come to San Francisco to become a student of
a spiritualist medium, Mme. Nowicki. When the question of a financial
investment in the medium’s business arises, T.T. and Rosie suspect that the
woman may be a con artist. They investigate Mme. Nowicki’s past and fail to
find anyone who has complained that she has bilked them of money, but T.T.
remains seriously unsettled by her claim to communicate with the spirits of the
dead.
About the author: Gerald W. McFarland is the author of
award-winning books in both nonfiction and fiction. During his forty-four years
of teaching U.S. history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, he
published four books in his field, the second of which, A Scattered People: An American Family Moves West, was named by the
Colonial Dames of America as one of the three best books in U.S. history
published in 1985. Since his retirement he has turned to writing fiction. His
Buenaventura Trilogy, set in early 18th-century New Mexico, follows
the exploits of an upper-class Spaniard who is secretly a shape-shifter. The
second and third books in the series were named Finalists in the New
Mexico-Arizona Book Awards contests for 2015 and 2016. His latest novel, T.T. Mann, Ace Detective, is a greatly
elaborated version of bedtime stories his father told him and his older brother
when they were young. Author’s website: www.geraldwmcfarland.com
Levellers Press is an independent publishing house founded in
2009 in Amherst and Florence, Massachusetts by worker-owners of Collective
Copies, a copy center established in 1983.
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