A 1001 Midnights Review: PETE HAMILL – Dirty Laundry.

A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review by Newell Dunlap PETE HAMILL – Dirty Laundry. Bantam,paperback original, 1978. It has taken free-lance reporter Sam Briscoe all of six years to get over (if not forget) Anne Fletcher. Then one snowy night in New York she telephones to say she is in trouble. Sam, against his better judgment, agrees to meet her. But, sure enough, she must have been in trouble, because she is killed before she can keep the appointment. The story is a shadowy one, but as Briscoe pieces it together, it seems to go something like this: Anne Fletcher left a rich and powerful Mexican boy friend named Pepe. She moved from her apartment and got a job with a bank. Pepe found her and apparently bought the bank to re-establish contact with her. But Anne had incriminating papers she wanted to show Briscoe, papers alleging bank fraud. or Pepe fraud, or something of the sort. But, of course, Anne never reached Briscoe, nor did the papers. Even more puzzling is the fact that Pepe himself…