The Colorado Kid

Description

The Colorado Kid is a mystery novel by American writer Stephen King, published by the Hard Case Crime imprint in 2005. The book was initially issued in one paperback-only edition by the specialty crime and mystery publishing house. Hard Case Crime reissued The Colorado Kid in an illustrated paperback edition in May 2019.

Excerpt

After deciding he would get nothing of interest from the two old men who comprised the entire staff of The Weekly Islander, the feature writer from the Boston Globe took a look at his watch, remarked that he could just make the one-thirty ferry back to the mainland if he hurried, thanked them for their time, dropped some money on the tablecloth, weighted it down with the salt shaker so the stiffish onshore breeze wouldn't blow it away, and hurried down the stone steps from The Grey Gull's patio dining area toward Bay Street and the little town below.

Description

On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues, and it's more than a year before the man is identified. And that's just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it an impossible crime? Or something stranger still...? No one but Stephen King could tell this story about the darkness at the heart of the unknown and our compulsion to investigate the unexplained. With echoes of Dashiell Hammett's THE MALTESE FALCON and the work of Graham Greene, one of the world's great storytellers presents a moving and surprising tale whose subject is nothing less than the nature of mystery itself. --back cover

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Other Editions

• The Colorado KidPaperbackHard Case Crime2019-01-01
• Colorado KidHardcoverExposition Press1978-01-01
• Colorado KidSimon & Schuster, Limited2005-01-01
• The Colorado KidMass Market PaperbackHard Case Crime2005-10-01
• Colorado Kid (Hard Case CrimeUnknown BindingTandem Library2005-10-01
• The Colorado KidAudiobookSimon & Schuster Audio2005-10-01