Danny Gardner
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English
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From award-winning author Danny Gardner comes ACE BOON COON, the second in the Tales of Elliot Caprice historical crime fiction series about a disgraced police officer caught between worlds, black and white, good and bad.
It's 1950s Illinois and Elliot Caprice has, returned to his rural Southville homestead to help his uncle save the family farm, which is struggling through a drought. As racial tensions between agricultural workers rise, a murder...
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English
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Responses to poems in Figure in the Landscape -
Dirk Kruithof, commenting on the poems about art/artists and music/musicians
'Danny's poems are compellingly enjoyable. (I've just raced through those, have you got any more?) They are human, perceptive and idiosyncratic - he's not afraid to cut through the lazy conventions of thought.'
George Clark, responding to the sequence 'Spain, Are you Here (early 1980s)'
'There is so much poetry in Spanish history!...
Author
Publisher
Down & Out Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"In 1952, after a year on the run, disgraced Chicago Police Officer Elliot Caprice wakes up in a jailhouse in St. Louis. His friends from his hometown secure his release and he returns to find the family farm in foreclosure and the man who raised him dying in a flophouse. Desperate for money, he accepts a straight job as a process server and eventually crosses paths with a powerful family from Chicago's North Shore. A captain of industry is dead,...