The Body in the Back Seat by Dick Lochte
An irreverent, tricky whodunit by Dick Lochte, the award-winning, Los Angeles Times bestselling author whose work Publisher’s Weekly says “outclasses, in many ways, the tales of Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald and other renowned California mystery writers.”
It’s the Swinging Sixties and Harry Trauble is ready for some California Dreamin’. He’s young, single, living at a cool beach-side pad and working in Hollywood at Ogle, the nation’s second most popular magazine for men. So what if the Vietnam Conflict is heating up and Watts is a racial powder key about to blow? At Ogle, with its beautiful people, amusing eccentrics and sexual freedom, it’s nothingbut fun and games. Unless you’re worried about a company executive being crushed by agiant statue of the magazine’ s jaunty frog logo . . . or the strangled corpse left in the back seat of Harry’s car . . . or the dark and sinister plan that’s placed the employees of Ogle on the hit list of a very efficient assassin.
This book was previously published under the title Croaked!
Books by Dick Lochte
The Body in the Back Seat
It's the 1960s...and a writer for a wild men's magazine is finds himself entangled in mystery and murder in this irreverent, tricky whodunit.
Blues in the Night
A hard-boiled, Shamus Award-nominated novel of redemption, a lightning-fast thrill ride, a witty whodunit and an edgy, no-holds-barred love story that reads like a modern day "Maltese Falcon" on steroids...by one of the most acclaimed and admired writers in crime fiction.
Sleeping Dog
What happens when a hard-drinking, middle-aged PI teams up with a strong-willed 14-year-old searching for her lost dog? Find out in Dick Lochte’s suspense masterpiece – and one of the most acclaimed crime novels ever.
Laughing Dog
Hardboiled private eye Leo Bloodworth and his teenage partner Serendipity Dahlquist are back in a wild and deadly new mystery you’re sure to love just as much as Dick Lochte’s award-winning thriller Sleeping Dog.
Reviews For The Body in the Back Seat
A splashy, sexy, swingin’ adventure. Lochte delivers plenty of surprises and a lot of laughs along the way.
A giddy romp.
Tongue-in-cheek, the 6Os social satire rolls out in a smooth, droll fashion that would make the late, great Richard S. Prather proud.
Memorable, quirky characters that are fun and entertaining.
