Naked Curse

A Larry Kent Mystery

De: Don Haring

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

It started with a lady artist who wanted Larry Kent to scare off a man who’d been following her. Next day he was handed another delicate case – this one a case of blackmail. And finally he was hired by a crippled millionaire whose son had gone missing, presumed abducted.
What did they all have in common?
The answer lay in an old, old crime that had never truly laid to rest. But to crack the case, Larry had to play as rough as the men he was aiming to catch … and where a hulking man-mountain called ‘The Monster’ was concerned, that was very rough indeed …

About Larry Kent

Larry Kent started his life as the hero of a half-hour radio show on Australia’s Macquarie Network, and was inspired chiefly by the success of the hardboiled mysteries of Carter Brown. As the popularity of the radio show grew, the Cleveland Publishing Pty. Ltd decided to publish a series of Larry Kent novels. Two authors, Don Haring (an American who lived in Australia) and Des R Dunn (a Queenslander) are primarily associated with the series. Between 1954 and 1983, Larry appeared in well over 400 adventures.
Kent is a typical hardboiled private eye. He smokes Camels, drinks whisky and within the first dozen pages or so, has usually met a dame and is fighting for his life. His mean streets are pure New York (although the radio series was set in Australia) and include Harlem nightclubs and Jersey roadhouses.
Generally the body counts are high: about six deaths per novel.
But there’s another side to Larry Kent. He’s a Vietnam war veteran, he used to work for the CIA and still does, usually reluctantly, on occasion. And once, when an attempt was made on his life, the Agency paid for him to have plastic surgery that altered his appearance ... something he never quite managed to get used to.
Larry Kent is fast and fun, and Piccadilly Publishing is proud to bring his cases to a whole new generation of fans, complete with upscaled versions of their original ‘good girl’ artwork.