New Novel Takes Readers Back To San Francisco In The Early Seventies

Online, March 27, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Coming on April 1, 2012:

A new mystery/thriller by Barry S. Willdorf. "A Shot In The Arm" takes the reader back in time to the San Francisco of the early 1970s. Peruse the menu at the Trident Restaurant on the Sausalito waterfront. Slide seamlessly among the old, waterlogged houseboats that lined the shore. Mingle with soldiers and sailors, black militants and hippies. Watch Raymond Chandler's movie "The Long Goodbye" for a couple of bucks. Order a beer for less than that. Score drugs of all kinds on practically every corner.

Travel back in time to visit a Bay Area rarely portrayed in today's literature. Visit the Fillmore district before it was gentrified. Witness a car chase over the dirt roads that crisscrossed Bernal Hill. Trespass into the shipyards and foundries that still bustled with activity. Spend some time at the Hamilton Air Force Base officer's club. Sip some coffee where longshoremen once prowled.

"A Shot In The Arm delivers a dark murder plot with characters that are right on the money." Mark Rudd, author of Underground: My life in SDS and the Weathermen.

"The legal details are sharp; the drinking and drugging and low life neighborhoods are Day-Glo vivid." Meredith Sue Willis, author of Ten Strategies to Write Your Novel and Out of the Mountains

"A detective story with a sense of geography, a sense of morality, and a sense of humor." Frances Lefkowitz, author of To Have Not

"Gripping. Exciting. Add 'A Shot in the Arm' to the classic tales of the City by the Bay." Hilton Obenzinger, author of Cannibal Eliot and the Lost Histories of San Francisco and Busy Dying

A Shot In The Arm is part of a trilogy being published by Whiskey Creek Press. Part One, Burning Questions, was published last August
Both novels are available in print and as ebooks from the publisher, Amazon and Barnes & Nobel.