Feelers
A Crime Novel
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Morty Martinez is known in the industry of estate liquidation as a "feeler." If you were to look him up in the Brooklyn yellow pages, he would be listed under "home content removal," but his real job is looking for stashes of cash crammed into tin cans that have been left out of wills, kept out of banks, and hidden away for decades by the frugal elderly suspicious of ATMs and the IRS.
When Morty hits upon the biggest score of his life, over $800,000.00, he knows that news travels fast and he must operate quickly and carefully to safeguard his booty, his life and his destiny as patrician of a seaside Mexican village. But what he doesn't know is that there are others after the same buried treasure, including the recently paroled prison assassin Danny Kessel.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Officially, Morty Martinez cleans out the houses of dead people in this highly amusing mystery from Lefty Award winner Wiprud (Pipsqueak). Actually, as Morty explains in his charming if egotistical voice, he's a "feeler" who searches for the money that senior citizens tend to stash around their homes. Morty's overjoyed to find $800,000 on one job in Brooklyn, until the discovery attracts the covetous attention of other feelers and a greedy ex-cop who believes the cash is part of the hidden loot from an armored car heist. Meanwhile, one of the armored car robbers comes looking for the money after being released from prison, where he became a hair-trigger killer with an ice pick. Challenged to stay alive while hanging onto his prize, Morty prepares for a luxurious retirement in Mexico, where he looks forward to a new career as a Latin lover. That readers know Morty survives his various travails doesn't lessen the suspense as he faces one catastrophe after another.
