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      The Big Both Ways

      by John Straley
      Published
      May 2008
      Main Genre
      Historical Mystery Hist. Mystery
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      350
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      A Cold Storage Novel Book 1

      About This Book

      Slip Wilson is just trying to find work, food and a little justice when he hooks up with a bottle-blonde, Ellie Hobbes, who drags him into her edgy, ragtag life. At the last minute, Ellie, a notorious "red" union organizer who faces mounting problems with antiunion forces, and her young niece hop aboard the same rickety boat Slip is escaping on that's traveling from Seattle to Juneau. The odd trio barely catches a breath as weather, hunger, a Seattle homicide detective and a revenge-seeking gang of thugs hound them all the way up the Inside Passage. Ellie isn't big on explanations, so Slip isn't sure until nearly the end of their journey if she's a heroine or a scoundrel.

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      Historical Historical Mystery

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      May 2008 Alaska Northwest Books ISBN13 9780882407326 ISBN10 0882407325
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