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Mean Streak. CAROLYN WHEAT

Mean Streak.

CAROLYN WHEAT

Other works by CAROLYN WHEAT

Publication: Berkeley, 1996, New York

First edition. Signed. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edgar nominee for best novel. Brooklyn defense attorney Cass Jameson agrees to defend an ex-lover charged with bribery. Attorney Matt Riordan, who defends mob clients, claims he did not bribe a court clerk for the secret grand jury records of testimony given by minor criminal Nunzie Aiello. Manhattan federal prosecutor Nick Lazarus is hot to nail Riordan, and his star witness, Brooklyn vice cop Eddie Fitzgerald, is saying the kinds of things that could get Riordan disbarred, even if he beats the rap. However, Cass has found an informant who claims that Eddie Fitz is crooked and furthermore, that Lazarus knows it. How to prove the heat on Riordan is made up? It's not easy when Nunzie Aiello and the informant are found dead and then two more deaths follow, guaranteeing Riordan a mistrial ... the witnesses are getting bumped faster than Riordan’s counsel can cross-examine them ..... now putting him in the greater peril of getting charged with murder!

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