Spanish Harlem

A Larry Kent Mystery

De: Don Haring

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

A promising young student named Phillip Ecuador vanished from his military academy in Georgia, and Larry Kent was hired to find out what had become of him.
The investigation took him to a redneck town called Dixievale, a bully-boy sheriff and a militant group known as the Sons of the South. As things progressed, Larry was framed, arrested, imprisoned and shot at, but not once did he ever consider giving up. The stakes were too high for that.
His client—Phillip’s father—was a violent underworld boss, and if Larry didn’t crack the case, a vicious gang war was going to rip New York’s Harlem district to shreds …

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 be bringing his cases to a whole new generation of fans, complete with updated versions of their original ‘good girl’ artwork.