Showing Goodey's Last Stand: A Hard Boiled Mystery by Charles Alverson

A classic mystery novel for fans of Chandler, Parker and Spillane…

SFPD Detective Joe Goodey’s luck turned bad right around the time he shot the mayor’s cousin. It got worse when the department took his badge and ran him out of San Francisco to a flophouse motel.

But when a local go-go queen turns up murdered, her black book of names needs to be recovered discretely - lest the mayor's affairs become public. And so Joe Goodey is offered a simple deal: solve the case and Joe gets his badge back. But with few leads – and no time - can Goodey survive San Francisco’s winding streets and cutthroat characters long enough to catch the killer?

Hailed as “...the next best thing to finding a new and unsuspected Raymond Chandler phantasmagoria” (The New Yorker), this hard boiled mystery might just prove to be Joe Goodey’s last.

Goodey's Last Stand is the first book in the Joe Goodey hard boiled murder mystery series.