An Occasional Hell
 First edition | |
| Author | Randall Silvis |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Permanent Press |
Publication date | 1993 |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 256 pp |
| ISBN | 1-877946-24-9 |
| OCLC | 26674219 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3569.I47235 O28 1993 |
An Occasional Hell is a crime novel by the American writer Randall Silvis.[1]
Set in 1990s in the lower Monongahela River Valley below Pittsburgh, it tells the story of Ernest DeWalt, a former Chicago private investigator and successful novelist who is now a college professor. DeWalt's new life is interrupted when a philandering colleague, Alex Catanzaro, is killed in a farmland trysting place and his widow asks the former PI for help.[2] It was made into a film starring Tom Berenger in 1996.
References[edit]
- ^ "Randall Silvis, Contemporary Authors Online, Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2008".
{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires|magazine=(help) - ^ "An Occasional Hell (1993), Publishers Weekly, 1993".
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