Very Cold for May, William P. McGivern
Very Cold for May, William P. McGivern
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Very Cold for May

Author: William P. McGivern

Narrator: Stephen Bowlby

Unabridged: 5 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2013

Synopsis

Her corpse would be the hottest news in town. May Laval was as brilliant as a ten-carat diamondand just as cold. As the calculating ruler of a social set, she influenced generals, politicians, and big businessmen. Slowly and shrewdly, she learned the intimate details of everyones life and recorded the seamy facts in a diary so as not to forget a single sordid detail. One day, May Laval threatened to publish her diary. Now its up to PR man Jake Harrison to find out who killed May andwhile hes at itwhy his wife left him.

About William P. McGivern

William P. McGivern (1919–1982), born in Chicago, grew up in Mobile, Alabama. After quitting high school, he started to write. He served in World War II and then studied in England before returning to the United States, where he worked as a police reporter for the Philadelphia Bulletin. After his first novels appeared in the 1940s, he received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. In the 1960s he and his wife moved to Hollywood, where he wrote for film and television. Several of his books were made into motion pictures, including The Big Heat and Rogue Cop.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jure

Quite good and interesting. It deals with a government corruption, moral hypocrisy of officials, war profiteering and media spin-offs that cover up all this shit. Murder mystery and our hero's personal dilemmas (also related to his marital problems) are elegantly placed in this background of post-wa......more

Goodreads review by Malcolm

This 1950 police procedural is told in a very straight-forward manner like books that ended up in noir movies. The protagonist is former newspaper reporter Jake Harrison who works for a PR firm that's representing a man currently being investigated by the government. Add to this, the fact that forme......more

Goodreads review by Lee

A fine little mystery/Crime tale. Author of, The Big Heat, one of the all-time greats in the hard-boiled crime genre. And a damn fine movie. [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Woody

My, what big words you used, Mr. McGivern. And repeatedly. And the ending was rather bland. Still, the CHI setting had me reminiscing of pleasant visits.......more

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