The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes.

K. C. CONSTANTINE

Publication: David R Godine, Publisher, 1982, Boston

First edition. Fine in dust jacket lightly tanned on the spine. When police chief Mario Balzic walks into Muscotti's bar, Vinnie the bartender offers him some fresh tomatoes even though it is only the middle of June. The tomatoes were grown by Jimmy Romanelli, an unemployed miner, and sold to Vinnie. When Frances Romanelli reports her husband Jimmy missing, and , three deaths have occurred, and Mario Balzic is unable to resolve Romanelli's murder, the cause dealing with Jimmy's passion for growing tomatoes.

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