The Man Who Couldn't Miss
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“The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes is Handler at his best, drawing us close to his hero and the hero’s beloved pooch, Lulu, while introducing us to some of the scuzziest Hollywood characters this side of James Ellroy.”
—CTNews.com
Also by David Handler
FEATURING STEWART HOAG
The Man Who Died Laughing
The Man Who Lived by Night
The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Woman Who Fell from Grace
The Boy Who Never Grew Up
The Man Who Cancelled Himself
The Girl Who Ran Off with Daddy
The Man Who Loved Women to Death
The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes
FEATURING BERGER & MITRY
The Lavender Lane Lothario
The Coal Black Asphalt Tomb
The Snow White Christmas Cookie
The Blood Red Indian Summer
The Shimmering Blond Sister
The Sour Cherry Surprise
The Sweet Golden Parachute
The Burnt Orange Sunrise
The Bright Silver Star
The Hot Pink Farmhouse
The Cold Blue Blood
FEATURING BENJI GOLDEN
Phantom Angel • Runaway Man
FEATURING HUNT LIEBLING
Click to Play
FEATURING DANNY LEVINE
Kiddo • Boss
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE MAN WHO COULDN’T MISS. Copyright © 2018 by David Handler. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Cover photographs: ©antpkr/Shutterstock (curtains); © Michal Sanca/Shutterstock (man silhouette); © Hector Barbosa/Shutterstock (dog silhouette); ©sripfoto/Shutterstock (background); © Berezina/Shutterstock (stripes)
FIRST EDITION
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Handler, David, 1952– author.
Title: The man who couldn’t miss : a Stewart Hoag mystery / David Handler.
Description: First edition. | New York, NY : William Morrow Paperbacks, 2018. | Series: Stewart Hoag mysteries ; 10
Identifiers: LCCN 2018015440| ISBN 9780062412850 (trade paper) | ISBN 9780062412874 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Hoag, Stewart (Fictitious character)—Fiction. | Ghostwriters—Fiction. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3558.A4637 M292 2018 | DDC 813/.54—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018015440
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ISBN: 978-0-06-241285-0 (paperback)
Digital Edition AUGUST 2018 ISBN: 978-0-06-241287-4
Version 07072018
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-285114-7 (library edition hardcover)
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