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Reading: Don Dupay: Frank’s Revenge
October 14, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
FreeAnnie Bloom’s welcomes Portland author Don Dupay to read from his novel, Frank’s Revenge: Albina After Dark.
Don DuPay, former Portland Police homicide detective, is a crime fighter turned crime writer. Read along as he brings private eye Frank McAllister to life as he scours the back alleys and dead-end streets of Portland’s dangerous Albina ghetto in search of a killer. Be his backup as he works to solve the murders the police don’t care about. But why? And what about the council of old gangsters who lured him into the case using a pretty woman as bait? What do they really want? Things get messy as Black Bart returns from eight years in prison vowing to once again be the kingpin of the St. Johns drug business and take his old territory back, but now the ghetto dealers wear badges and, oh yeah, he wants his old girlfriend back, too. Then there’s Indian Charlie, tenderloin denizen, with his secrets of death and destruction. And just where is the “Blind Pig” anyway? Written in the style of Boston Blackie and Mike Hammer…sorta.