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Trouble in Tahiti: The Gauguin Murders

Trouble in Tahiti: The Gauguin Murders

Hayford Peirce
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1901 PAUL GAUGUIN, the disease-ridden, half-crazed, dope-driven, alcoholic scoundrel who fled his family in France for the earthly Paradise of the South Seas, left behind all kinds of messes upon his miserable, unlamented angry mistresses worthless paintings that he’d bartered for a sack of sugar illegitimate children with all of his flaws and none of his talent disdainful Colonial officials only too happy to see him in his grave 1969 But the biggest mess of all was the one he left for two tough, resourceful, and relentless ex-U.S. Army officers, their bond forged in the hellhole of Korea HANK CORY one-time Captain in Army Counter-Intelligence now a mild-mannered Sunday artist and bookstore owner in a ramshackle waterfront building with an equally ramshackle future stretching before him and SAMUEL TILDEN CHEEVER THE THIRD All-American tackle and scion of Old San Francisco Money, Cory’s former commanding officer, come to Tahiti to look for a 68-year-old treasure that could be worth millions for each of them. WHAT THEY STUMBLE ON THE GAUGUIN MURDERS and an implacable menace that has them next on the list of victims!
Language
English
Pages
200
Format
Paperback
Release
May 01, 2001
ISBN 13
9781587153778

Trouble in Tahiti: The Gauguin Murders

Hayford Peirce
0/5 ( ratings)
1901 PAUL GAUGUIN, the disease-ridden, half-crazed, dope-driven, alcoholic scoundrel who fled his family in France for the earthly Paradise of the South Seas, left behind all kinds of messes upon his miserable, unlamented angry mistresses worthless paintings that he’d bartered for a sack of sugar illegitimate children with all of his flaws and none of his talent disdainful Colonial officials only too happy to see him in his grave 1969 But the biggest mess of all was the one he left for two tough, resourceful, and relentless ex-U.S. Army officers, their bond forged in the hellhole of Korea HANK CORY one-time Captain in Army Counter-Intelligence now a mild-mannered Sunday artist and bookstore owner in a ramshackle waterfront building with an equally ramshackle future stretching before him and SAMUEL TILDEN CHEEVER THE THIRD All-American tackle and scion of Old San Francisco Money, Cory’s former commanding officer, come to Tahiti to look for a 68-year-old treasure that could be worth millions for each of them. WHAT THEY STUMBLE ON THE GAUGUIN MURDERS and an implacable menace that has them next on the list of victims!
Language
English
Pages
200
Format
Paperback
Release
May 01, 2001
ISBN 13
9781587153778

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