Gargantuan
A Ruby Murphy Mystery
1st Edition
Published on 24. March 2010
272 pages
978-0-307-52576-5 (ISBN)
Description
Maggie Estep's critically praised heroine, Ruby Murphy, is back! Back in Coney Island with a bunch of endearing misfits, back at the racetrack ogling thoroughbreds, and back learning that, on the seamy side of the sport of kings, survival can be a long shot.
Ruby's life is nothing if not complicated: she's spending a lot of her time worrying about a jockey named Attila Johnson; a good-hearted Teamster with a bad back; a neighbor who is suspicious of anything that moves; one very fat cat who craves raw meat; a missing FBI agent; an underused piano; a few fine horses—and the sure knowledge that somehow, somewhere, there is a killer among them.
Ruby's life is nothing if not complicated: she's spending a lot of her time worrying about a jockey named Attila Johnson; a good-hearted Teamster with a bad back; a neighbor who is suspicious of anything that moves; one very fat cat who craves raw meat; a missing FBI agent; an underused piano; a few fine horses—and the sure knowledge that somehow, somewhere, there is a killer among them.
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MAGGIE ESTEP is the author of Diary of an Emotional Idiot and Soft Maniacs. Her work has appeared in various anthologies and magazines, including the Village Voice, the New York Press, and Nerve.com. She is currently working on Flame Thrower, the next Ruby Murphy Mystery, and hanging out at racetracks, cheering on long shots. She lives in New York City.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Other Books By This Author
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 - The Jockey
- Chapter 2 - Man on Fire
- Chapter 3 - Sherpa Guide
- Chapter 4 - Cool My Head Off
- Chapter 5 - After Near Death
- Chapter 6 - Innocent Beasts
- Chapter 7 - Masked Rider
- Chapter 8 - Velocity
- Chapter 9 - Women's Studies
- Chapter 10 - The Blind Eye
- Chapter 11 - Counting Horses
- Chapter 12 - Savage in the Heart
- Chapter 13 - Darwin's Hiccup
- Chapter 14 - In the Hole
- Chapter 15 - Symptoms
- Chapter 16 - She Run Good
- Chapter 17 - The Comfort of Strangers
- Chapter 18 - Ten Kinds of Trouble
- Chapter 19 - Hush
- Chapter 20 - The Sadness of Humans
- Chapter 21 - Radiance
- Chapter 22 - When the World Stops Spinning
- Chapter 23 - Vicious
- Chapter 24 - Half Naked
- Chapter 25 - Runaway
- Chapter 26 - The Layout of Eternity
- Chapter 27 - Bad Lady
- Chapter 28 - The Girl
- Chapter 29 - Last Ride
- Chapter 30 - At Sixes and Sevens
- Chapter 31 - Caught
- Chapter 32 - If Wishes Were Horses
- Chapter 33 - Dead by Yesterday
- Chapter 34 - Compelling Thunder
- Chapter 35 - Crawling
- Chapter 36 - Long Shot
- Chapter 37 - Ride
- Chapter 38 - Falling
- Chapter 39 - Ether
- Chapter 40 - Grace
- About the Author
- Also by Maggie Estep
- Copyright
