Stephen Greenleaf: Blood Type

Stephen Greenleaf: Blood Type (UK 2016)

From the Publisher:
Tom Crandall - war hero, social crusader and P.I. John Marshall Tanner's close friend - is discovered dead in an alley in San Francisco's sleazy Tenderloin district. The police call it suicide.

But a cryptic answerphone message leads Tanner to suspect that Clarissa Crandall's affair with millionaire Richard Sands may have sealed her husband's fate.

As he investigates his friend's death, Tanner turns up suspicious clues that lead to the city's vulnerable blood supply and to Tom's homeless, schizophrenic brother, whose chilling conspiracy theories are closer to the truth than Tanner could ever have imagined.

Stephen Greenleaf: Blood Type. A John Marshall Tanner Mystery. Mulholland Books, ISBN: 9781473624092 (June, 2016), eBook, 1021 KB (ca. 292 p.), £3.99 (?).

Stephen Greenleaf: Blood Type (USA 2016)

From the Publisher:
John Marshall Tanner dives into San Francisco's roughest neighborhood to avenge a fallen friend
John Marshall Tanner, PI, is a drinking man, and he prefers to imbibe in the comfort of a nameless San Francisco bar. Tanner has just one friend there, a social crusader named Tom Crandall who has just discovered that his wife, a celebrated chanteuse, is having an affair with one of the city's most powerful men: Richard Sands. Sands is a ruthless corporate tycoon, and if he wants to steal Crandall's wife, there's nothing either Crandall or the private detective can do about it. But soon after Crandall confides in Tanner, the jilted husband is found dead.

Although the police write Crandall's death off as just another overdose, Tanner knows his friend never touched drugs. Convinced the murder was connected to Sands, he begins a journey that will take him into the depths of San Francisco's seediest district -- the Tenderloin -- where only the streetwise survive.

Blood Type is the 8th book in the John Marshall Tanner Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

"Greenleaf delivers the incisive social observations, compassionate characterizations and fine writing that we've come to expect of this substantial series." -- The New York Times
"The legitimate heir to the mantle of the late Ross MacDonald." -- Chicago Tribune

Stephen Greenleaf: Blood Type. A John Marshall Tanner Mystery. MysteriousPress.com / Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781504025126 (February, 2016), eBook, 2195 KB (ca. 281 p.), $7.99 (?).

Stephen Greenleaf: Blood Type (USA 1993)

From the Publisher:
BAD BLOOD
They were barroom pals who talked about politics, philosophy, everything but their private lives... until the night Tom Crandall asked detective John Marshall Tanner for help.

It seems that Tom's sultry wife, Clarissa, was having an affair with Richard Sands, a ruthless corporate raider with enough money, guts, and power to get whatever he wanted.

But did Richard Sands want Tom Crandall dead? That's the question confronting Tanner when his friend's lifeless body is found in an abandoned alley in San Francisco's sleazy Tenderloin district. The cops are calling it suicide, but Tanner doesn't buy it, because the last message Tom left on his answering machine hinted at something that went far beyond a marriage gone wrong. Now Tanner resolves to trace Tom's last steps... only to find that the clues lead to Tom's brother -- a raving schizophrenic whose wild accusations of a chilling conspiracy may not be so wild after all.

BLOOD TYPE

"AMONG TODAY'S CANDIDATES, NO ONE WEARS THE CHANDLER CAPE BETTER THAN JOHN MARSHALL TANNER." -- San Diego Union-Tribune
"MR. GREENLEAF DELIVERS... [THE] FINE WRITING THAT WE'VE COME TO EXPECT OF THIS SUBSTANTIAL SERIES." -- The New York Times Book Review

Stephen Greenleaf: Blood Type. A John Marshall Tanner Mystery. Bantam Books; ISBN: 0553561065 (October, 1993), 292 p., $4.99.

Stephen Greenleaf: Blood Type (USA 1992)

From the Publisher:
"All the right components are here -- violence and sex, intellectual deduction and good guesses, wit and cynicism -- plus lots of real surprises and that essential ingredient of the private-eye tale, a large pinch of morality."

So said New York magazine about Stephen Greenleaf's previous novel Death Bed. Other critics have hailed Greenleaf's novels as "expertly wrought" (Newsweek), "first-rate" (The Christian Science Monitor), "crackling with new insights" (The Philadelphia Inquirer), and "as good a private-eye novel as one is going to encounter" (The New York Times Book Review).

Blood Type is Stephen Greenleaf's eighth mystery featuring hard-drinking, laconic San Francisco detective John Marshall Tanner, who has been called "the long-sought heir of Sam Spade, Marlowe, and Archer" (San Francisco Chronicle). And Tanner will need all his skills and courage to solve a case the reverberations of which could shake the country.

Tom Crandall, war hero, social crusader, and Tanner's barroom confidant, lies dead in an abandoned alley in San Francisco's Tenderloin. The police call it suicide, but Tanner suspects that the affair Crandall's wife was having with millionaire corporate raider Richard Sands may have sealed Tom's fate. And as he investigates, Tanner begins to turn up suspicious clues that lead to the city's vulnerable blood supply, and to Crandall's homeless, paranoid brother, whose accusations are so wild and terrifying that even Tanner is shaken with fear.

From the velvet-lined nightclubs of the Bay Area to the burned-out porn shops of the Tenderloin, Blood Type is a novel of greed and malevolence, complete with all the Greenleaf hallmarks: literate writing, satisfying characters, and crackling good dialogue. For fans both new and old, Blood Type is a mystery to chill the veins and quicken the heartbeat.

Stephen Greenleaf is the author of the acclaimed John Marshall Tanner mystery series, which includes Book Case, Grave Error, Death Bed, State's Evidence, Fatal Obsession, Beyond Blame, and Toll Call. He is also the author of The Ditto List and Impact. He lives in Seattle.

Stephen Greenleaf: Blood Type. The new John Marshall Tanner Mystery. William Morrow, ISBN: 0688112684 (September, 1992), 283 p., $20.00.