That Dog Won't Hunt

Lou Allin

Description

Cowboy drifter Rick Cooper is on the run in the California desert when he meets Gladys Ryan, an eccentric widow who offers him a ride in her classic 1970 Mustang. Before long she convinces him to accompany her to Northern Ontario to help refurbish her hunting lodge, promising him a share of the upcoming season's profits and hinting at more. The offer is too good to pass up. Rick takes to life in the bush, working hard to make the lodge successful. In his free hours he hunts birds, reluctantly taking Bucky, Gladys' ancient golden retriever along with him.


But when the lucrative season comes to an end, Gladys refuses to share the profits, instead offering the hired man a few thousand dollars in wages. In the middle of a drinking bout, an argument ensues. Rick shoves Gladys and she falls and hits her head and dies. He takes her body into the remote bush and disposes of her trademark Mustang, telling anyone who asks that she has gone off on her annual snowbird vacation. No one seems suspicious and it looks like the perfect crime. Rick seems to have it all figured out...except what to do with Bucky...

Sujets

• Thrillers
• ELL
• Teaching English as a foreign language
• English as a foreign or second language
• EAL
• Electronic Sports League
• Suspense
• Estonian Air
• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: Orca Book Publishers
• Date de parution: 01 octobre 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781554695478
• Langue: English

Extrait

THAT DOG WON'T  HUNT

THAT DOG WON'T  HUNT

lOU AllïN

Copyright © 2010 Lou Allin

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Allin, Lou, 1945- That dog won’t hunt / written by Lou Allin. (Rapid reads)

Issued also in an electronic format. ISBN 978-1-55469-339-9

I. Title. II. Series: Rapid reads PS8551.l5564t43 2010 C813’.6 C2010-903657-3

First published in the United States, 2010 Library of Congress Control Number:2010929176

Summary:A drifter takes a job at a hunting lodge in Northern Ontario, with the expectation of a big payday for the summer’s work. But when the eccentric owner decides to renege on her promises, she ends up dead. (RL 2.8)

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