DEATH CAPS (HARDCOVER)

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by Michael Castleman

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$24.95

348 pages

ISBN-10: 0867196750

ISBN-13: 9780867196757

Publisher: Last Gasp

At the gala launch party of porn publisher Ted Calderone's new erotic magazine, sexy models serve delicious appetizers -- but a murderer has spiked one tray with poison mushrooms, death caps. A controversial investigative reporter eats them and dies. Local newspaperman Ed Rosenberg was standing next to the victim when he swallowed the poison, and gets sucked into the murder investigation. Ed follows leads from a dark basement in Chinatown, to a fabulous mansion atop Russian Hill, to the heart of America's porn industry. He meets gorgeous nude models, a gangster with cirrhosis, a famous feminist who hated Calderone but now works for him, and a computer hacker who can find out anything. More bodies drop, and Ed wonders if Calderone is the murderer -- or the killer's ultimate target. Then Ed finds himself looking down the wrong end of a gun.

"An intriguing whodunit plot. Makes excellent use of the author's in-depth knowledge of his adopted city. Sure pacing and vivid journalist's world pull readers in. Racy sex scenes." -Publisher's Weekly.

"Castleman captures the city in all its glory." -Library Journal.

"Move over, Sam Spade. There's a new crime-solver on the beat. He's a reporter who knows his way around the mean streets of San Francisco. He has an exotic gal pal. He loves the Giants, and constantly spars with his crusty, doughnut-noshing editor." -Jewish Bulletin of Northern California.