Somebody is about to murder Luane Devore but just who is anybody's guess. It could be the young husband she keeps in bizarre servitude, or the distinguished doctor with an ugly secret in his past, or any of the half-dozen other people whose reputations have been blighted by Luane's malicious gossip. In this funny, poignant and genuinely terrifying novel, the patron saint of American noir re-configures the whodunnit as a who'll-do-it.
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Somebody is about to murder Luane Devore but just who is anybody's guess. It could be the young husband she keeps in bizarre servitude, or the distinguished doctor with an ugly secret in his past, or any of the half-dozen other people whose reputations have been blighted by Luane's malicious gossip. In this funny, poignant and genuinely terrifying novel, the patron saint of American noir re-configures the whodunnit as a who'll-do-it.