02485cam a2200397 i 4500 501831642 TxAuBib 20210513120000.0 190425s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781538750568 HC $29.00 1538750562 HC $29.00 (OCoLC)1098292900 TxAuBib rda Baldacci, David. One good deed. Book 1 / / David Baldacci. 1 good deed. First edition. New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2019. 422 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Aloysius Archer "It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of do's and a much longer list of don'ts: do report regularly to his parole officer, don't go to bars, certainly don't drink alcohol, do get a job--and don't ever associate with loose women. The small town quickly proves more complicated and dangerous than Archer's years serving in the war or his time in jail. Within a single night, his search for gainful employment--and a stiff drink--leads him to a local bar, where he is hired for what seems like a simple job: to collect a debt owed to a powerful local businessman, Hank Pittleman. Soon Archer discovers that recovering the debt won't be so easy. The indebted man has a furious grudge against Hank and refuses to pay; Hank's clever mistress has her own designs on Archer; and both Hank and Archer's stern parole officer, Miss Crabtree, are keeping a sharp eye on him. When a murder takes place right under Archer's nose, police suspicions rise against the ex-convict, and Archer realizes that the crime could send him right back to prison--if he doesn't use every skill in his arsenal to track down the real killer."-- Provided by publisher. 20210513. Parolees Fiction. Ex-convicts Fiction. False imprisonment Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Veterans Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. United States History 1945- Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Historical fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Aloysius Archer.