House Dick

“This fellow Hunt... he knows too damn much.” - President Richard Nixon Before he became one of the most controversial figures in modern American history, before he went to prison for his involvement in the Watergate conspiracy, E. Howard Hunt was an award-winning novelist, recipient of a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship (beating out Truman Capote and Gore Vidal for the honor) and the author of numerous popular political thrillers and crime stories. House Dick is one of Hunt's very best, a classic hardboiled story of a detective in a Washington D.C. hotel (no, not that hotel) investigating a twisty tale of burglary and murder, of skullduggery under cover of darkness, of deception and shifting loyalties-and of the price you pay when you trust the wrong people... Cover; Acclaim For the Novels of E. Howard Hunt; Excerpt; Other Hard Case Crime Books; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen; Chapter Fifteen; Chapter Sixteen; Chapter Seventeen; Other Hard Case Crime Books Pete Novak, a cynical hotel detective who, within the span of a few hours, stumbles upon all the elements of a classic double (or even triple- ) cross. There are missing jewels, a dead body, a phony doctor, an estranged couple possibly running the badger game, and another dead body. And all this just on the fifth floor of a smallish K Street hotel