Word: stoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most potent writing to be found in any mystery of recent months appears in Jonathan Valin's Extenuating Circumstances (Delacorte; 234 pages; $15.95). His detective, Harry Stoner, yet another of the shopworn ex-cops so beloved of the genre, is hired to investigate the disappearance of a wealthy politician and do-gooder. The missing man is found tortured to death. His killers: two boy prostitutes, one of whom was seeking a father figure, the other of whom scorned his client as a masochistic "beat freak." The who in this whodunit is known early in the story. Valin is more interested...
...Everyone in the whole bohemian preppie stoner set, who do the reggae Deadhead-tie-dye-long-hair-down-to-earth trip while they're here and then go to deb balls and work on Wall Street when they leave...