The Barbary Dogs
A Max Bravo Mystery by Cynthia Robinson
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Acknowledgment: Minotaur Books provided a copy of The Barbary Dogs for this review.
Selected reviews of other mysteries by this author …
The Dog Park Club
Minotaur Books (Hardcover), June 2010
ISBN-13: 9780312559731; ISBN-10: 0312559739
Location(s) referenced in The Barbary Dogs: San Francisco, California
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The Barbary Dogs by Cynthia Robinson
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-312-55974-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-55974-8
Publication Date: November 2011
List Price: $24.99
Synopsis (from the publisher): Max Bravo is ready for some rest and relaxation. But when an old friend takes a leap off the Golden Gate Bridge, Max realizes that rest and relaxation simply aren't in the cards. The jumper, Frank Kelly, was a failed writer and an accomplished hothead. Max acquires Frank's journal, and is soon following the dead man through a foggy landscape of artistic manias and romantic intrigues. Along the way, he encounters a motley crew of crackpots, bohemians, and wily ghosts that refuse to be buried in San Francisco’s Barbary Coast past.