I’ve been reading Thomas B. Dewey’s books off and on for close to 60 years since discovering his series about the private eye known only as Mac while I was in high school. He’s never failed to entertain me. He’s one of those writers who never achieved huge success but published steadily for 25 years and was always well-regarded by readers and critics. Black Gat Books has just reprinted one of his stand-alones, HUNTER AT LARGE, published originally in hardcover by Simon & Shuster in 1961 and reprinted in paperback by Pocket Books in 1963—an edition I owned for many years but never got around to reading.
The protagonist of this one is Mickey Phillips, a police detective in an unnamed
Midwestern city, who is home one night with his wife Kathy when two men show up
at the house, take Mickey by surprise, make him a prisoner, and torture and
kill his wife in front of him. They leave thinking that they’ve killed Mickey,
too, but he survives, which is a bad mistake for them to make.
After months of recuperation, Mickey is well enough to set out on the trail of
the killers. He has to resign from the police force to do it, but he doesn’t
care. He just wants revenge for Kathy’s murder. The trail leads him across the
country with stops in Kansas City, Denver, and a small town in Nevada. Mickey
puts his training to good use in conducting a dogged, methodical investigation
which ultimately leads him to his goal with a few surprises along the way.
This is a fine suspense novel written in Dewey’s usual smooth prose with
well-developed characters, especially Mickey Phillips. He never comes across as
hysterical or overwrought, just very, very determined. The mystery angle is
well-constructed. It’s a very bleak, humorless book, but given the plot, I don’t
see how it could have been anything else. If you’ve never read Dewey’s work
before, HUNTER AT LARGE isn’t really representative of his private eye novels
featuring Mac or his other series protagonist Pete Schofield, but it’s well
worth reading and it gets a solid recommendation from me. It’s available in
paperback and e-book editions.
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