Bedford Square AUTH-9509621 On her deathbed

On her deathbed

the Kremlin has deployed the security services to intimidate the political opposition

Earth is dying

As Hjortsberg guides us through his search to uncover Brautigan as a man the reader is pulled deeply into the writer's world

* Traveling to California

Bedford Square AUTH-9509621 On her deathbedThe freshly dead body sprawled on the Bedford Square doorstep of General Brandon Balantyne is an affront to every respectable sensibility. The general denies all knowledge of the shabbily dressed victim who has so rudely come to death outside his home, but Superintendent Thomas Pitt cannot believe him for in the dead man's pocket, Pitt finds a rare snuffbox that recently graced the general's study. The superintendent must tread lightly, however, lest