Joe Gores: Final Notice (USA 2019)

From the Publisher:
"First-class private eye fiction." -- Chicago Tribune
An aging beauty's red Cadillac is repossessed by the bank but quickly returned, thanks to a comic book on its front seat stuffed with $500 in new bills. The repo agency, Dan Kearny Associates, has accidentally interfered with a mob payoff. When one of their agents suffers a savage beatdown by a pair of underworld goons, the DKA team is plunged into a dark mystery involving a former porn star, a blackmail scheme, and a series of murders.

Author Joe Gores was hailed by critic Anthony Boucher as "one of the very few authentic private eyes to enter the field of fiction since Dashiell Hammett." The three-time Edgar Award winner's firsthand experience as a detective adds a tough realism to Final Notice, the second book in his DKA File series. This new edition includes a bonus DKA short story by Gores, "File #10: The Maimed and the Halt."

"Tight, tense, beautifully plotted." -- The New York Times
"Gores writes some of the hardest, smoothest, most lucid prose in the field." -- The New York Times Book Review

Joe Gores: Final Notice. A DKA File Novel. Dover Crime Classics, ISBN: 9780486838311 (November, 2019), 192 p., $14.95, eBook $11.99 (?).

Joe Gores: Final Notice (UK 2015)

From the Publisher:
The bank gives Chandra the dancer final notice; Daniel Kearny Associates take her red Caddy, then the trouble starts. In the car the DKA men find $500 in new bills. Suddenly the bank wants to give the Caddy back, and Dan Kearny smells a crime. Putting a tail on Chandra leads the DKA team to a mobster, a former porn star and the wrong side of a blackmail payoff.

At the end of the trail waits an underworld shark with a deadly grin - the kind of man who plays murderous games, and plays to win...

Joe Gores: Final Notice. Orion Books / The Murder Room, ISBN: 9781471917516 (February, 2015), eBook, 0.40 MB (240 p.),£4.99.

Joe Gores: Final Notice (USA 1992)

From the Publisher:
"FIRST-CLASS PRIVATE EYE FICTION." -- Chicago Tribune
The bank gave Chandra the dancer her final notice; Daniel Kearny Associates took her red Caddy, and then the trouble started. In a comic book in the car the DKA men found five crisp $100 bills. Suddenly the bank wanted to give the Caddy back, and Dan Kearny smelled a crime. Putting a tail on Chandra led the DKA team to a mobster, a former porn star, and the wrong side of a blackmail payoff. Now a simple repo was turning into an investigation into a killing. And at the end of the trail waited an underworld shark with a deadly grin -- the kind of man who played murderous games, and played them to win...

Like Dashiell Hammett, Joe Gores actually worked as a private eye before he became a mystery writer. The author of nine gritty, realistic novels of suspense and numerous screenplays and teleplays based on his twelve-year experience as a San Francisco P.I., Joe Gores has won three Edgar Awards and broad critical acclaim. His novels based on the Daniel Kearny Associates (DKA) agency are universally acknowledged as classics of the genre.

Cover design and illustration by John Mattos (?)

Joe Gores: Final Notice. A DKA File Novel. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0446403148 (December, 1992), 199 p., $4.99.

Joe Gores: Final Notice (USA 1973)

From the Publisher:
The first DKA File novel, Dead Skip, was called "superb in its swift, to-the-point plotting and on-the-mark dialogue. Dan Kearny's detectives are Lew Archer in concert, and Joe Gores' novel ranks at the head of its class." -- O. L. Bailey, Saturday Review

In Final Notice Joe Gores has done it again. Here are the same characters, the same "fist in the face of authenticity."* Joe Gores demonstrates once more how fresh and compelling the detective novel really can be.

*Ellery Queen

JOE GORES spent a dozen years as a San Francisco private investigator -- and several more working odd jobs and poking about odd corners of the globe. These experiences included teaching school in Kenya, logging in Alaska, spear-fishing in Tahiti and the Seychelles, working as a carny in the Midwest and as a common laborer all over. In California he managed a "hot-sheet" motel and ran a weight-lifting gym, at the Pentagon he wrote biographies of Army generals. He went to school long enough to earn degrees from Notre Dame and Stanford.

He now lives near San Francisco with his wife, Susan, and a black cat named Bwana, and writes books. His work has won two Mystery Writers of America "Edgars" and his exhaustive Marine Salvage has become the standard non-technical work in the field.

Jacket design by Robert Aulicino

Joe Gores: Final Notice. The Second DKA File Novel. Random House, ISBN: 0394487060 (December, 1973), 199 p., $4.95.