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THE DEAD TAKE NO BOWS by Richard Burke

THE DEAD TAKE NO BOWS

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Pub Date: March 17th, 1941
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin

Pretty medloere gumshoer. Simultaneous shooting of two former vaudeville successes, definitely has beens, in a cheap theatrical hotel, make Quinny Hite, formerly of the police force, decide to postpone his marriage in order to do some sleuthing on his own. Motivas? -- Money -- love -- revenge. Small cast of theatricals and ex-theatricals in one disguises or another.