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As Algy Temple, the deft pool player, sleuth and Ivy League university lawyer, investigates the suspicious death of a retired professor, it coincides with his involvement in a high stakes pool tournament in Providence, where old world shadows hang heavily in the air. Unexpectedly, he finds himself on a path that leads him to Rome and the Boot of Italy where he confronts the dreaded 'Ndrangheta crime family and discovers a past haunted by vendetta and conspiracy. Mobsters and shylocks, a Ponzi scheme, an outraged Italo-American community locked in a culture war with the University, a pool hustler's last gambit for recognition, and his fiancé's, the sassy and beautiful Nadie Winokur, focus on their upcoming wedding add complexity to the suspenseful tension. Algy picks his way through dark alleys of moral corruption and the murky world of big time pool where the match becomes a wager of life and death.

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J.J. Partridge makes a claim to membership in an exclusive club of Providence linked writers, with H.P. Lovecraft and S.J.Perelman. Mark Arsenault, author of Gravewriter, Spiked, and Speak Ill of the Living--Mark Arsenault

Partridge adroitly weaves together the different plot points of this witty and well-written whodunit. â Publishers Weekly starred review Captures Providence's unique character where 'wheeling and dealing' is the form of government and the citizenry tolerate rogue politicians so long as 't'ings go right. â Robert Knightly, author of The Cold Room and Bodies in Winter and editor of Queens Noir (Robert Knightly) J.J. Partridge makes a claim to membership in an exclusive club of Providence linked writers, with H.P. Lovecraft and S.J.Perelman. â Mark Arsenault, author of Gravewriter, Spiked, and Speak Ill of the Living (Mark Arsenault)

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"An astute observer of academia politics and politicians, and pool, J.J. Partridge's novels illuminate academic sensibilities and campus foibles, political turf wars and ethnic tensions, civic sleaziness, gaming's relationship with Native Americans, and particularly the murky world of the sport of pool, both amateur and professional. ""Carom Shot"" and ""Straight Pool"" are the prior titles in the Algy Temple mysteries; ""Scratched"" continues the series. J.J. Partridge's distinguished career practicing law provides experience with Providence's high times and low lifes."

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