# Bone Key

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- Book: [Bone Key](https://www.bookquiver.com/les-standiford/bone-key) ([Bone Key.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/les-standiford/bone-key.md))
- Authors: [Les Standiford](https://www.bookquiver.com/les-standiford), [Scott Brick](https://www.bookquiver.com/scott-brick)
- Publisher: poisoned_pen_press
- ISBN: 978-15-9058-345-6
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2012-07-31
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Its tough being a small-time hustler in Key West, FL. When this hustler is being beaten by a cop, John Deal steps in to stop it, but it is only a temporary rescue: the hustler turns up dead only two days later. The cops are claiming ignorance and the locals arent saying a word. Could the dead man be somehow connected to a seventy-year-old tale of piracy, murder, and greed? No one knows what really happened on that storm-swept night. But something about the legend and the recent murder are haunting John Deal to the bone.