An Occasional Hell
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Author | Randall Silvis |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Publisher | |
Publication date | 1993 |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | 256 pp |
ISBN | 1-877946-24-9 |
OCLC | 26674219 |
813/.54 20 | |
LC Class | PS3569.I47235 O28 1993 |
An Occasional Hell is a crime novel by the American writer Randall Silvis.[1]
Set in 1990s in the lower Monongahela River Valley below Pittsburgh, it tells the story of Ernest DeWalt, a former Chicago private investigator and successful novelist who is now a college professor. DeWalt's new life is interrupted when a philandering colleague, Alex Catanzaro, is killed in a farmland trysting place and his widow asks the former PI for help.[2] It was made into a film starring Tom Berenger in 1996.
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- 1993 American novels
- American crime novels
- Novels set in Pennsylvania
- 1990s crime novel stubs