Marcia Muller: Leave A Message for Willie (USA 2011)

From the Publisher:
Somewhere in shifting world of San Francisco flea markets, a priceless collection of sacred Torah scrolls is gathering dust -- and attracting a group of fanatical killers. When private investigator Sharon McCone helps one flea market kingpin fend off a stalker, she's drawn into the nether-world of deal-making and thievery. For her client Willie Whelan, the sidewalk sales are a game: trick the customer, outsell the competition, and stay one step ahead of the cops. But Willie's enemies have something more sinister in mind -- a conspiracy so heinous it threatens the religious artifacts, Willie's freedom, and McCone's life!

Marcia Muller: Leave A Message for Willie. A Sharon McCone Mystery. Blackstone, ISBN: 9781609986131 (December, 2011), eBook, 648 KB (ca. 262 p.), $6.99.

Marcia Muller: Leave A Message for Willie (UK 1994)

From the Publisher:
A further paperback mystery featuring private eye Sharon McCone, who finds herself in a battle against time as she tries to clear a client's name, unravel the case of a missing Hebrew scroll, and keep one step ahead of a determined killer.

Marcia Muller: Leave A Message for Willie. A Sharon McCone Mystery. The Women's Press, ISBN: 070434369X (December, 1994), 214 p., £5.99.

Marcia Muller: Leave A Message for Willie (USA 1994)

From the Publisher:
PRIVATE EYE SHARON McCONE takes on a case for Willie Whelan, a vendor at the local San Francisco flea market -- not to mention his moon-lighting job as a fence. She's checking up on a silent man in dark clothes and a yarmulke who has been hanging around Willie's stall.

Sharon soon learns that the man is one Jerry Levin, who claims to work for a group that recovers stolen Torahs. Shortly after, Sharon finds Levin in Willie's garage -dead, with a bullet in the back of his head. When Willie's girlfriend, Alida, is found slain in the same neighborhood, Sharon realizes she's not only here to unravel the mystery of the missing Torahs, but must also clear her client's name with the police... and keep one crucial step ahead of a very determined killer.

"Plenty of action here." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Marcia Muller: Leave A Message for Willie. A Sharon McCone Mystery. The Mysterious Press published by Warner Books, ISBN: 0445409002 (July, 1994), 214 p., $4.95.

Marcia Muller: Leave A Message for Willie (USA 1990)

From the Publisher:
"McCone is easily the best in a recent spate of female detectives." -- SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW OF BOOKS

PRIVATE EYE SHARON McCONE takes on a case for Willie Whelan, a vendor at the local San Francisco flea market -- not to mention his moon-lighting job as a fence. She's checking up on a silent man in dark clothes and a yarmulke who has been hanging around Willie's stall.

Sharon soon learns that the man is one Jerry Levin, who claims to work for a group that recovers stolen Torahs. Shortly after, Sharon finds Levin in Willie's garage -dead, with a bullet in the back of his head. When Willie's girlfriend, Alida, is found slain in the same neighborhood, Sharon realizes she's not only here to unravel the mystery of the missing Torahs, but must also clear her client's name with the police... and keep one crucial step ahead of a very determined killer.

"Plenty of action here." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Marcia Muller: Leave A Message for Willie. A Sharon McCone Mystery. The Mysterious Press published by Warner Books, ISBN: 0445409002 (October, 1990), 214 p., $4.95.

Marcia Muller: Leave A Message for Willie (USA 1984)

From the Publisher:
Sharon McCone has been praised as "easily the best of a recent spate of female detectives" by the San Francisco Review of Books. In Leave a Message for Willie, Sharon juggles a budding romance with disc jockey Don Del Boccio and her newest case. This time her client is Willie Whelan, a vendor at the local San Francisco flea markets. But Willie makes his real money as a fence hardly the most likely person to hire Sharon to check on the silent man in a somber dark suit and yarmulke who has been seen hanging around Willie's stall.

Sharon soon learns the man is one Jerry Levin, who claims to work for a group that recovers stolen Torahs, the sacred Hebrew scrolls. Hours later, Sharon finds Levin in Willie's garage dead with a bullet in the back of his head. Then, Alida, Willie's girlfriend, is found slain just outside his house. Suddenly, Sharon finds she's not only trying to unravel the mystery of the missing Torahs, but must clear her client's name with the police, and keep one crucial step ahead of a very determined killer. The cast of characters includes the manager of the Salt Flats Market, a genial weapons dealer, an illegal alien from Guadalajara, a former Green Beret turned urban cowboy, and a truck driver who moonlights for Willie on weekends.

Combining the colorful circus atmosphere of the markets with the law and order conservativism that gives birth to deadly survival games amid the Santa Cruz Mountains make Leave a Message for Willie one of Marcia Muller’s most harrowing and intricate mysteries to date.

MARCIA MULLER is the author of five Sharon McCone novels. She lives in San Francisco.

Marcia Muller: Leave A Message for Willie. A Sharon McCone Mystery. St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 0312477287 (September, 1984), 152 p., $11.95.