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The Colorado Kid

The Colorado Kid
The Colorado Kid
This edition: eBook, 184 pages
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Description

On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues.

But that's just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it an impossible crime? Or something stranger still...?

No one but Stephen King could tell this story about the darkness at the heart of the unknown and our compulsion to investigate the unexplained. With echoes of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon and the work of Graham Greene, one of the world's great storytellers presents a surprising tale that explores the nature of mystery itself...

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Huffington Post, September 26, 2011
...and Ed McBain, some as re-issues, some as lost and unpublished, some as Hard Case Crime originals. Even Stephen King got in the game, releasing a Maine-based murder mystery called The Colorado Kid in the pocket-sized, paperback format for ...
PublishersWeekly.com, September 2, 2011
...t release sales figures, Ardai, editor of Hard Case Crime, said its bestselling title was by far The Colorado Kid by Stephen King, which had an initial print run in excess of one million copies. The four titles Hard Case has lined up for its ...
Ain't It Cool News, November 30, 2009
...Shawn Piller, Sam Ernst and Jim Dunn – are working on the series, supposedly based on the 2005 Stephen King novella “The Colorado Kid.” The thing is, the descriptions for “Colorado Kid” and “Haven” don’t much match. James ...
Aint It Cool News, November 30, 2009
...Shawn Piller, Sam Ernst and Jim Dunn – are working on the series, supposedly based on the 2005 Stephen King novella “The Colorado Kid.” The thing is, the descriptions for “Colorado Kid” and “Haven” don’t much match. James ...
Blogcritics.org, September 15, 2009
...Picked up a copy of Stephen King's The Colorado Kid for a buck-&-a-quarter at a Dollar General the other day. Though I knew that this book received its share of pans when it first came ...