An Occasional Hell | |
Author: | Randall Silvis |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | Permanent Press |
Release Date: | 1993 |
Media Type: | Print (hardback) |
Pages: | 256 pp |
Isbn: | 1-877946-24-9 |
Dewey: | 813/.54 20 |
Congress: | PS3569.I47235 O28 1993 |
Oclc: | 26674219 |
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.