An Occasional Hell.

RANDALL SILVIS

Publication: Sag Harbor: The Permanent Press, 1993,

First edition. Signed by the author. Fine in fine dust jacket. Author's first mystery. Before his kidneys and liver were riddled by bullets, Ernest DeWalt had been a Chicago PI. Now he's a college professor who survives with a soured attitude, an ever-present catheter hidden beneath his shirt, and a regimen that includes no booze and no sex. Philandering colleague, Alex Catanzaro, had had an affair with a local waitress, now missing, with no resistance from her husband ... a drug-addicted rock musician who is also missing! When Catanzaro is found murdered, his widow asks the former PI for help. Movie of the same name starred Tom Berenger.