Nameless had told Mitchell Krochek that he’d do whatever he could to find his missing wife, Janice. She’d run away before—propelled by a gambling fever that grew ever higher—and Mitch had always taken her back. This time, when Nameless, his partner Tamara, and the agency’s chief operative Jake Runyon finally found her in a sleazy San Francisco hotel, she demanded a divorce.
A few days later, a beaten and bloody Janice stumbled into the agency begging to go home. No one is surprised when, soon after her homecoming, she disappears again.
But gambling addiction has a way of twisting things, and the blood on Mitchell and Janice Krochek’s kitchen floor was a card off the bottom of the deck.
Janice is missing again, Mitchell is the prime suspect, and as Nameless searches for the truth behind her disappearance, he uncovers a vicious racket that preys on gambling fever victims…
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Rating: - Fever
"Fever" is the 32nd Nameless Detective novel by Bill Pronzini. The Nameless series is one of the longest running in detective fiction. Once a lone wolf detective, Nameless now has a name (Bill), a partner (Tamara), and 2 operatives in his agency. The agency is hired by Mitchell Krochek to find his missing wife Janice. They find her rather easily, but she refuses to go home. Janice has a bad case of gambling fever and may be involved with some unsavory characters. When someone close to the Krochek's ... Read More
Rating: - Imaginative Plotting and Vivid Characters Make This One of the Best Nameless Mysteries
Since the Nameless Detective (now, not so nameless) began building a practice with Tamara Corbin, this series has just gotten better and better. With two partners, Nameless and Tamara, dedicated detective, Jake Runyon, and new detective, Alex Chavez (who appears as little more than a name so far), the books can follow many story lines at the same time with different kinds of character and plot complications. It works really well.
Nameless is now in his sixties and trying to be semi-retired, ... Read More
Rating: - "Nobody knew anybody, when you got right down to it."
Bill Pronzini's "Fever" is about the compulsions that drive people to the edge--and occasionally straight over. The Nameless Detective (whose first name we now know is Bill) is in his sixties and semi-retired. He runs a San Francisco-based private investigation agency along with his partner, Tamara Corbin. His best investigator is the morose workaholic Jake Runyon, a former cop for the Seattle PD and a man in deep mourning since the death of his beloved wife, Colleen. Known as "Bloodhound Jake," Runyon's ... Read More
