Sausalito Ferry to Hell - Mark J. McCracken
Mark McCracken’s private eye novel The Sausalito Ferry to Hell features San Francisco based shamus Sean O’Farrell. It is a period piece set during the 1930’s though the period never figures into McCracken’s narrative in an important way. McCracken, like many practitioners of this style, makes great use of setting and he familiarizes readers early on with San Francisco and its environs. It isn’t Raymond Chandler and Los Angeles level where the city is practically another character in the novel, but McCracken does a respectable job of emphasizing its importance. O’Farrell, as a character, is a mix of the Hammett styled rough-hewn private investigator, but there are shades of Ross Macdonald’s Lew Archer present in the detective’s more vulnerable moments. It makes for an effective combination.
From the top of Nob Hill to the bottom of San Francisco Bay, it's a hell of a ride.
The mob is demanding answers, and they want them now. A ferryboat captain wants his missing daughter found. An oil company executive is in danger, can he and his family be protected? The new district attorney hates private eyes, take a number pal, so does everybody else. Danger is in the alley and around every corner in San Francisco. From Coit Tower to the bottom of the San Francisco Bay, can it be more dangerous than the last time around? This could be it, one final case for Private Eye Sean O’Farrell, one last showdown with it all ending with a ride on THE SAUSILTO FERRY TO HELL.
EAN: 9781942661856
Mark McCracken’s private eye novel The Sausalito Ferry to Hell features San Francisco based shamus Sean O’Farrell. It is a period piece set during the 1930’s though the period never figures into McCracken’s narrative in an important way. McCracken, like many practitioners of this style, makes great use of setting and he familiarizes readers early on with San Francisco and its environs. It isn’t Raymond Chandler and Los Angeles level where the city is practically another character in the novel, but McCracken does a respectable job of emphasizing its importance. O’Farrell, as a character, is a mix of the Hammett styled rough-hewn private investigator, but there are shades of Ross Macdonald’s Lew Archer present in the detective’s more vulnerable moments. It makes for an effective combination.
From the top of Nob Hill to the bottom of San Francisco Bay, it's a hell of a ride.
The mob is demanding answers, and they want them now. A ferryboat captain wants his missing daughter found. An oil company executive is in danger, can he and his family be protected? The new district attorney hates private eyes, take a number pal, so does everybody else. Danger is in the alley and around every corner in San Francisco. From Coit Tower to the bottom of the San Francisco Bay, can it be more dangerous than the last time around? This could be it, one final case for Private Eye Sean O’Farrell, one last showdown with it all ending with a ride on THE SAUSILTO FERRY TO HELL.
EAN: 9781942661856