An Occasional Hell

An Occasional Hell is a crime novel by the American writer Randall Silvis.[1]

An Occasional Hell
First edition
AuthorRandall Silvis
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPermanent Press
Publication date
1993
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages256 pp
ISBN1-877946-24-9
OCLC26674219
813/.54 20
LC ClassPS3569.I47235 O28 1993

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.

References

  1. "Randall Silvis, Contemporary Authors Online, Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2008". {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  2. "An Occasional Hell (1993), Publishers Weekly, 1993". {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)


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