THE RAINY CITY is the first book in Earl Emerson's Thomas Black mystery series. Thomas Black lives in Seattle - a la "The Rainy City" - with his renter, Kathy. Kathy is a first-year law student and she rents the basement of Black's house. It is Kathy who talks Black into investigating the disappe...
A little disappointing. (har, har)Emerson's stories and writing style are somewhat derivative of other top rated crime and suspense authors.In this tale, Private Eye, Thomas Black, is nearly killed by a bomb that went off in a school gymnasium. After almost bleeding to death, he spends days in ...