ISBN: 0-88739-313-6
322 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 3/2001
Paperback Original
Price: $15.95
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This Won't Hurt A Bit
Timothy Sheard
A surgical resident is murdered at a big city hospital and a custodian is held under suspicion. The police are satisfied they've got their man. But a few others aren't. These are the "invisibles" of the hospital staff, the support service workers. Their champion and appointed detective is janitor Lenny Moss, who learned his interrogative skills as shop steward checking into union complaints. Lenny investigates and comes up with five suspects-all staff physicians!
It was like this. Sidney called me from a pay phone, all shook up. I told him to ditch the stuff and got to Murray's Steaks on Chelton Ave and buy a case of frozen chicken, and be sure to save the receipt, then go home. Sure enough, when he pulled up to his house, the cops were waiting for him. They ordered him to open his trunk, and when he did he had a case of Murray's chicken and a receipt to go along with it. West had to drop the charges. He knew I was behind it. The bastard's trying to get even with me ever since. If you got Sidney off you ought to be able to get Regis off, too, said Moose. I wouldn't count on it, said Lenny. It's gonna be a lot tougher nut to crack.
Review: "Tim Sheard flings open the door to a metropolitan hospital and its inner workings as rarely if ever done before...What a combination of elements! What a must read book!"
-Seymour Shubin, author of Anyone's My Name
"His intimate view of Lenny's world is a gentle eye-opener into the way a large institution looks from a workingman's perspective."
-Marilyn Stasio, New York Times
"His encyclopedic knowledge of hospital people and politics makes for great reading."
-Henry Slesar, author of Murder At Heartbreak Hospital
"If you enjoy police procedurals, odds are fine you'll like this next step-a with-it hospital procedural that writer and savvy nurse Tim Sheard has graced with a trove of interesting inside material in a fast-moving tale created from respect for unsung hospital working stiffs, and no illusions about egotistical physicians. Could be the start of a fresh and offbeat series."
- Walter Wager, author of Sledgehammer, Tunnel, and Telefon
Bio: TIMOTHY SHEARD, formerly a hospital nurse, wrote this novel from an insider's perspective.
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