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Eureka

From the bestselling author of "Primal Fear" comes the story of Eureka, California--a small town controlled by the richest resident who "wins" the town in a poker game--that spans the early 1900s through the 1940s.

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  • "In 1941, Los Angels police detective Zeke Bannon investigates the suspicious electrocution of Verna Wilensky. He follows a trail of checks stretching back twenty years that leads him to Thomas Culhane of San Peitro, a man who may well be the next governor."
  • "From the bestselling author of "Primal Fear" comes the story of Eureka, California--a small town controlled by the richest resident who "wins" the town in a poker game--that spans the early 1900s through the 1940s."@en
  • "Purchased through an Ontario Trillium Foundation Grant."
  • "The seamy past of glamorous California lllies in the deceptively peaceful town of Eureka--once a bootlegger's paradise from which young rugged Thomas Culhane briefly escaped to fight in WW I. He later became the sheriff and was launching a bid to be the next governor."@en
  • "Dans les années 20 à San Pietro, ville californienne appelée autrefois Eureka, le sheriff est mort lors d'un règlement de comptes. A Los Angeles en 1941, l'inspecteur Zeke Bannon découvre que Verna, jeune veuve retrouvée morte, recevait depuis vingt ans des chèques venant de San Pietro. Il tente d'apprendre quels secrets se cachent derrière cette affaire."
  • "As police detective Zeke Bannon investigates a death that seems a sad accident, he unearths a decades-old secret that starts with a shoot-out, builds to a bloodbath, and could end up within the upper echelons of California's elite, forever changing the destiny of a state."
  • "When Verna Wilensky is electrocuted in her bathtub, it appears to be a tragic accident, but as police detective Zeke Bannon looks deeper into her life, he finds a bank account full of money and reason to believe Verna might have been killed as a result of a blackmail scam."@en
  • "The year is 1941. Verna Wilensky has been electrocuted in her bathtub, leaving a lower-middle-class life, no survivors, and a bank account packed with almost a hundred thousand dollars. Mysterious checks have consistently come to her for more than twenty years, most drawn from a bank in San Pietro, a town once known as Eureka. Eureka was a town that used to be a bootlegger's paradise and a gangster's dream. Now it is the rebuilt metropolis where Sheriff Thomas Culhane is launching a bid to be the golden state's next governor. But something just might threaten his ambitions. As Bannon digs deeper into Wilensky's demise, he unearths a decades-old secret that starts in a shootout, builds to a bloodbath, and could end up within the upper echelons of California's elite, forever changing the destiny of a state."@en

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  • "Large type books"
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Detective and mystery fiction"@en
  • "Detective novels"
  • "Detektivní romány"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "American fiction"
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en

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  • "Eureka"
  • "Eureka"@en
  • "Eureka : [roman]"
  • "Žena bez minulosti"
  • "La loi du silence"

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