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<p><strong>Millie Henshawe&mdash;intrepid smart-talking gay ex-GI&mdash;is the field agent (hired gun) for Continental Removals LLC in Boston a niche firm catering to very special clients. Millie&rsquo;s well-honed skills are tested when the unexpected happens and the hired gun becomes the target! A pitch-black comic novel. Gallows humor and dead-on dialogue.</strong></p><p>This fun off-beat murder mystery introduces wacky unconventional characters. &nbsp;Millie&rsquo;s boss Ralph Klammer and his assistant Mary Michael Mulloy who founded Continental Removals around the time of the Vietnam war with Ralph&rsquo;s mother Sheila. Their assassin out-fitter and clean-up guy Mr. Moustakas &nbsp;Jauncey Chambers the off-kilter driver for Millie&rsquo;s first hit who thinks the whole set-up is just like the movies. &nbsp;And then there&rsquo;s Ray Roth a sad-sack gambler who leads Millie to an unlikely story and the unsettling truth about the business.</p><p>The author keeps the reader guessing with zany zig-zags in the plot and the dialogue pops with energy and invention. &nbsp;Whether it&rsquo;s Jauncey&rsquo;s be-bop cadences the Mob-speak of thugs or the high-wire improvisations of Ralph when he Millie and Mary Mike get together for postmortems the punchy dialogue sets a new standard in fun murder mysteries.</p><p><em>Wrong Man Down</em> is the first Millie Henshawe novel in the series followed by <em>Who&rsquo;s Who Among the Dead</em>. &nbsp;These novels upend and reinvent the genre of crime fiction. &nbsp;Millie the killer is also the detective: &nbsp;she is the one who understands everybody&rsquo;s story figures out all the details of the fiendishly complicated plots and explains how &nbsp;everything fits together.</p><p>Part of the fun comes with the off-beat original characters she meets. &nbsp;There&rsquo;s Jauncey Chambers in <em>Wrong Man Down</em> the off-kilter driver for her first target who thinks the whole set-up is just like the movies. &nbsp;And there&rsquo;s Ray Roth a sad-sack gambler who tells Millie an unlikely story that nevertheless leads to the unsettling truth underlying the entire plot.</p>