The Colorado Kid
Language: English
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: Oct 4, 2005
Words:
36554
Flesch:
88.5
DDC:
813.54
FAST Tags:
Islands,
Maine,
Homicide investigation,
Missing persons--Investigation,
Forensic sciences,
Newspaper employees,
Cold cases (Criminal investigation),
Reporters and reporting
LCC:
PS3561.I483
LC Genre:
Literature>American and Canadian>Fiction>20th Century>1945-1999
Book Details
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Description:
On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues.
But that's just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it an impossible crime? Or something stranger still...?
No one but Stephen King could tell this story about the darkness at the heart of the unknown and our compulsion to investigate the unexplained. With echoes of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon and the work of Graham Greene, one of the world's great storytellers presents a surprising tale that explores the nature of mystery itself...