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Steps Going Down (Countryman Press; 307 pages; $14.95) omits Author Joseph Hansen's recurring sleuth, Insurance Investigator Dave Brandstetter, but unfolds in his usual seedy gay Southern California milieu. The central character, Darryl Cutler, is a rogue undone by his few fleeting moments of trust and devotion. A former male prostitute, he becomes infatuated with a blond boy as pretty and venal as he used to be. Cutler knows that he is being used. Even so, his sexual itch drives him to theft, fraud and murder. Each crime makes him more subject to blackmail. The tale moves toward its climax...
...Harvard lead lasted for just a fraction of the time referee Alex Dell had set aside to determine whether or not to allow Cavanagh’s goal. Darryl McKinnon feigned a shot from the right faceoff circle to freeze the Crimson defense, then shuffled the puck cross-ice to Mormina, who one-timed the feed past Grumet-Morris to retie the score after just 36 seconds...
...then the 6’5 Mormina, standing wide-open in the left circle, struck again, slapping home a pretty, cross-ice feed from teammate Darryl McKinnon and beating Grumet-Morris high and stick-side...
...Harvard lead lasted for just a fraction of the time referee Alex Dell had set aside to determine whether or not to allow Cavanagh’s goal. Darryl McKinnon feigned a shot from the right faceoff circle to freeze the Crimson defense, then shuffled the puck cross-ice to Mormina, who one-timed the feed past Grumet-Morris to retie the score after just 36 seconds...
...then the 6’5 Mormina, standing wide-open in the left circle, struck again, slapping home a pretty, cross-ice feed from teammate Darryl McKinnon and beating Grumet-Morris high and stick-side...