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Hipster Killer in the Tenderloin: A Philip Beckett Mystery (Philip Beckett in the San Francisco Tenderloin Book 2)

Phil Semler

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Description:After a second young man—a wannabe novelist—is murdered in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, the Chronicle receives a letter from the “Hipster Killer,” a “Zodiac” copycat whose agenda is to keep undesirables like hipsters and yuppies from the neighborhood and gentrifying it. Each of the male victims had his “soul patch”—the slight fuzz under his lip—sliced off like a souvenir scalping! The gritty Tenderloin—thirty blocks of residential hotels, homeless, junkies, prostitutes, and hoards of the mentally disturbed—is filled with criminals waiting to prey on any tourists who dare wander just a few blocks from upscale Union Square or the nearby Hilton. Also in the “TL” live thousands of hopeful immigrant families with their children, hardworking folks, retirees, survivors, community organizations, Glide Memorial Church, cheap ethnic food, and now even a few hipster clubs and artists.A community fight led by a former Haight hippie, Urban Shocker, against the new development of “Cubex”—100 “micro-unit” apartments being built for the hordes of “creatives” moving downtown—also ignites the district.Philip Beckett is a private detective specializing in finding runaway kids in San Francisco. Now he’s looking for a 17-year-old boy from the suburbs. Meanwhile he’s trying to help Anh Nguyen, a smart 14-year-old Vietnamese-American girl, from straying into a neighborhood gang. He protected the girl last Christmas by throwing his body over hers as her brother was shot and killed by a rival gang.Maggie Chang, Beckett’s beleaguered wife, is producing Chekhov’s tragic farce The Cherry Tree in her No Exit Theatre in the neighborhood.After 59-year-old Beckett was shot, he went to recuperate in Thailand with Maggie, but came back with a drug habit, and a lot more pain that just won’t go away. He would prefer to walk around his beloved Tenderloin streets talking with its denizens about philosophy and the Giants, but somehow he gets going again and finds himself in all of the action: finding the boy, helping the girl, and giving Maggie the love and support she needs. And after one of Maggie’s actresses is stabbed by the “Hipster Killer” and left in a coma, Beckett goes into full rage and begins to hunt for the serial killer.HIPSTER KILLER IN THE TENDERLOIN is a hard-boiled, first-person crime novel.Finally, it’s a story of redemption through art, music, theatre, love, and family in even the bleakest cityscape.David Corbett, New York Times Notable author, says Semler’s Beckett series is “gritty, thoughtful, funny with many virtues, but none overshadows its unique setting: San Francisco's Tenderloin District. Semler renders this area in loving detail, with characters both oddball and deeply human. Beckett locks on to the evil he sees with uncompromising intent. He's a man of the people in a troubled, changing world, a San Francisco samurai, and he's not afraid to speak truth to power—or kick it in the balls.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hipster Killer in the Tenderloin: A Philip Beckett Mystery (Philip Beckett in the San Francisco Tenderloin Book 2). To get started finding Hipster Killer in the Tenderloin: A Philip Beckett Mystery (Philip Beckett in the San Francisco Tenderloin Book 2), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: After a second young man—a wannabe novelist—is murdered in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, the Chronicle receives a letter from the “Hipster Killer,” a “Zodiac” copycat whose agenda is to keep undesirables like hipsters and yuppies from the neighborhood and gentrifying it. Each of the male victims had his “soul patch”—the slight fuzz under his lip—sliced off like a souvenir scalping! The gritty Tenderloin—thirty blocks of residential hotels, homeless, junkies, prostitutes, and hoards of the mentally disturbed—is filled with criminals waiting to prey on any tourists who dare wander just a few blocks from upscale Union Square or the nearby Hilton. Also in the “TL” live thousands of hopeful immigrant families with their children, hardworking folks, retirees, survivors, community organizations, Glide Memorial Church, cheap ethnic food, and now even a few hipster clubs and artists.A community fight led by a former Haight hippie, Urban Shocker, against the new development of “Cubex”—100 “micro-unit” apartments being built for the hordes of “creatives” moving downtown—also ignites the district.Philip Beckett is a private detective specializing in finding runaway kids in San Francisco. Now he’s looking for a 17-year-old boy from the suburbs. Meanwhile he’s trying to help Anh Nguyen, a smart 14-year-old Vietnamese-American girl, from straying into a neighborhood gang. He protected the girl last Christmas by throwing his body over hers as her brother was shot and killed by a rival gang.Maggie Chang, Beckett’s beleaguered wife, is producing Chekhov’s tragic farce The Cherry Tree in her No Exit Theatre in the neighborhood.After 59-year-old Beckett was shot, he went to recuperate in Thailand with Maggie, but came back with a drug habit, and a lot more pain that just won’t go away. He would prefer to walk around his beloved Tenderloin streets talking with its denizens about philosophy and the Giants, but somehow he gets going again and finds himself in all of the action: finding the boy, helping the girl, and giving Maggie the love and support she needs. And after one of Maggie’s actresses is stabbed by the “Hipster Killer” and left in a coma, Beckett goes into full rage and begins to hunt for the serial killer.HIPSTER KILLER IN THE TENDERLOIN is a hard-boiled, first-person crime novel.Finally, it’s a story of redemption through art, music, theatre, love, and family in even the bleakest cityscape.David Corbett, New York Times Notable author, says Semler’s Beckett series is “gritty, thoughtful, funny with many virtues, but none overshadows its unique setting: San Francisco's Tenderloin District. Semler renders this area in loving detail, with characters both oddball and deeply human. Beckett locks on to the evil he sees with uncompromising intent. He's a man of the people in a troubled, changing world, a San Francisco samurai, and he's not afraid to speak truth to power—or kick it in the balls.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hipster Killer in the Tenderloin: A Philip Beckett Mystery (Philip Beckett in the San Francisco Tenderloin Book 2). To get started finding Hipster Killer in the Tenderloin: A Philip Beckett Mystery (Philip Beckett in the San Francisco Tenderloin Book 2), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Hipster Killer in the Tenderloin: A Philip Beckett Mystery (Philip Beckett in the San Francisco Tenderloin Book 2)

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