1932 harold lentz jack the giant killer pop up book

The rock-’n’-roll band was on a break, but someone had turned the radio up, and Jerry Lee Lewis’s “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” was rattling the windowpanes. The blonde had smiled and said something to him, then she took another drag from her Lucky Strike.Ĭorrigan saw her heavily lipsticked red mouth form words, but he couldn’t hear what they were. He closed his eyes and tried to recall how he had ended up here. His perspective was marred by the alcohol in his veins, and the fact that his left eye was nearly swollen shut. He rolled painfully onto his back and found himself looking up dizzily into the rustling, moonlit leaves of tall, thin trees. Given his condition that night, he might have slept through everything that happened, but a cold wind cut through his clothing, rousing him. IF THE BLONDE HAD NOT PUT HER HAND ON JACK CORRIGAN’S THIGH, HE might have awakened in his own bed, rather than facedown on the side of a farm road in the middle of the night.

Determined to make a final splash for her beloved paper and solve the mystery that plagued O’Connor until his death, Irene pursues a story that reunites her with her past and may end her career - and her life. So when the baffling kidnap-burial case resurfaces, Irene’s tenacious love for her mentor and journalistic integrity far outweigh any fears or trepidation. With circulation down and young reporters fresh out of journalism school replacing longtime staffers, Irene can’t help but wish for the good old days when she worked with O’Connor. Irene, now married to homicide detective Frank Harriman, is a veteran reporter facing the impending closing of the Las Piernas News Express. Are those of the infant heir among them? If so, who is the young man who has recently changed his name to Max Ducane? Again the trail goes maddeningly, perhaps suspiciously, cold. Twenty years after that fateful night, in her first days as a novice reporter working for managing editor O’Connor, Irene Kelly covers the groundbreaking ceremony for a shopping center - which unexpectedly yields the unearthing of a buried car. Corrigan recovers his health, but despite a police investigation and his own tireless inquiries, the mysteries of the buried car and the whereabouts of Maxwell Ducane haunt him until his death. An investigation finds that the Ducane home has been broken into a nursemaid has been killed and Max, the infant heir, has gone missing. In a seemingly unrelated mystery, a yacht bearing four members of the wealthy Ducane family disappears during a storm off the coast. In and out of consciousness, Corrigan claims to have witnessed the burial of a bloodstained car on a farm, but his reputation as a heavy drinker calls his strange story into question. O’Connor, a young reporter with the Las Piernas News Express, is desperate to discover who has perpetrated a savage attack on his mentor, Jack Corrigan.

1932 harold lentz jack the giant killer pop up book