The Stray

The Stray
Alessio Chiadini Beuri

A vitriolic thriller full of action and caustic jokes set in a New York corrupted by sin, hunger and organised crime in the 1930s.

The death of Elizabeth Perkins seems to be a case already solved: the body found in the house, no sign of robbery, a husband who lost track of him. But there is something that does not convince Mason Stone, private investigator and former police officer. A box of matches, a past that is struggling to emerge and a mysterious suitor are just the ends of a tangle that becomes more and more tangled every time the truth seems to come closer. Stone will be forced to fight against an entire city, against a New York corrupted by sin, hunger and organised crime, in a vortex of violence that grows tighter and tighter around him, like the coils of a snake.

Translator: Simona Casaccia

Alessio Chiadini Beuri

The Stray

Transl.: Simona Casaccia

Cover: ©Jason McCann (https://unsplash.com/@bkview) ©Cottonbro © Alessio Chiadini Beuri

©Alessio Chiadini Beuri 2021

Summary

Andrew Lloyd (#ulink_1151946f-e1a6-556e-8963-41a8be800e07)

The precinct (#ulink_3a314809-c111-59e6-81b6-27e0f148d8ea)

Police Line Do Not Cross (#ulink_2f1db7b9-b1a3-5820-a130-b6d1ac691d94)

The witness (#ulink_ed93dc72-e3cb-59b5-9b64-246593e1f36c)

A taxi ride (#ulink_74661643-9a16-56a1-98ed-52b15584c176)

Non-stop (#ulink_a9050bc1-2f27-5367-bd92-ca84653f822f)

On two sides (#ulink_f42321c8-e0ea-5fa4-a4c2-6e5c01be8ebc)

Sunshine Cab (#ulink_8dfe3bd0-7442-599a-896a-5656efa0ab7d)

Bump in the road

Family portrait (#ulink_d50b5d11-2ce0-55ea-89bf-cf25db2174aa)

Tennant’s

The rescuer

Vesper

Stray (#ulink_e3d05f85-84a0-5296-b495-9914ba58c0d7)

A lovely man

5 years (#ulink_f8dc38e6-cb7c-58fe-ad87-623a757950ff)

Watery grave

Distractions

A small world

Burning coals

Ace in the hole (#ulink_8536e046-8c7c-5973-abc5-74d1f94cb88b)

It doesn't add up

Gloria Stanton (#ulink_fb1bc3c4-4ffc-5ece-9c11-4b3f6bccde9c)

Treasure hunt (#ulink_93bc5086-2002-5a02-bc98-e5841a73cd42)

No answer

Chicago

A lovely father

The rat hole (#ulink_836ca28c-11e6-5ec6-8892-bfaa489370ce)

Scripta manent

Shelter (#ulink_dcdae537-6d3d-55f3-a2c4-0693c51f5e9e)

Fog in Rochelle (#ulink_a18145b9-5a4a-59a8-a695-e11e1192eefb)

End stop

Light

Back to school (#ulink_7b336613-2bbb-54aa-8421-4f0d26ae2573)

Little girl

On the river (#ulink_3558259d-5825-52e8-97f6-5cabb70936f4)

Building 25

John Doe (#ulink_5c6179ea-a926-57c0-820a-a2c8433dfeeb)

Appointment (#ulink_ef29ff94-7dcd-5a8f-9860-e13e4aecc4b2)

Collect call