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Private Chauffeur: A Vintage Noir Novel of Desire, Deception, and Domestic Corruption
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781627553650
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
Published: Jun 18 2013
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Private Chauffeur is a tense mid-century crime novel of desire, deception, compromised respectability, and private ruin. Gary Heaslip, a grounded former pilot haunted by the air disaster that ended his career, takes work as a chauffeur in Montauk and is quickly drawn into the affairs of Dolores Carter, her doctor husband Ivan, and Ivan's mistress, Erica. What begins as employment becomes a trap of jealousy, seduction, wounded pride, and concealed motives.
N. R. De Mexico's novel moves through the dangerous space between crime fiction, psychological suspense, and hard-boiled domestic melodrama. The chauffeur is not merely a servant or observer but a charged presence inside a household already poisoned by betrayal. As schemes tighten and desire clouds judgement, the book exposes the unease beneath wealth, marriage, sex, and social performance. For readers of vintage noir, paperback-original crime fiction, and psychologically sharp mid-century suspense, Private Chauffeur is a compact, unsettling example of Black Curtain fiction at its most intimate and corrupt.
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