Author | Randall Silvis |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | The Permanent Press |
Publication date
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1993 |
Media type | Print (Hardback) |
Pages | 256 pp |
ISBN | |
OCLC | 26674219 |
813/.54 20 | |
LC Class | PS3569.I47235 O28 1993 |
An Occasional Hell is a crime novel by the American writer Randall Silvis.
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.