02383cam a2200385 4500 513467144 TxAuBib 20200630120000.0 200630|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781538750568 1538750562 TxAuBib Baldacci, David. One Good Deed. New York ; Boston : Grand Central Publishing, 2019. 422 pages ; 24 cm. "It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of dos and a much longer list of donts: do report regularly to his parole officer, don't go to bars, certainly don't drink alcohol, do get a job -- and don't ever associate with loose women. The small town quickly proves more complicated and dangerous than Archer's years serving in the war or his time in jail. Within a single night, his search for gainful employment -- and a stiff drink -- leads him to a local bar, where he is hired for what seems like a simple job: to collect a debt owed to a powerful local businessman, Hank Pittleman. Soon Archer discovers that recovering the debt won't be so easy. The indebted man has a furious grudge against Hank and refuses to pay; Hank's clever mistress has her own designs on Archer; and both Hank and Archer's stern parole officer, Miss Crabtree, are keeping a sharp eye on him. When a murder takes place right under Archer's nose, police suspicions rise against the ex-convict, and Archer realizes that the crime could send him right back to prison... if he doesn't use every skill in his arsenal to track down the real killer.". 20200630. Ex-convicts -- Fiction. Veterans -- Fiction. Murder -- Fiction. Thrillers & Suspense -- Fiction. Historical -- General -- Fiction. Criminal Procedure -- Fiction. World War 1939-1945 -- Fiction. Homicide -- Fiction. Suspense fiction. United States -- History -- 1945 -- Fiction. Action & Adventure-- fiction. Historical fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Novels. Detective & Mystery fiction. Fiction.