Skip tracer Henry Swann cares little about anything but money, so when a beautiful Upper East Side woman shows up in his office and hires him to find her missing husband, he smiles and takes the cash. But when this seemingly simple missing-person case turns into homicide, Swann finds himself trapped in a complext web of connections and multiple identities that takes him out of New York City and across two continents.
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Skip tracer Henry Swann cares little about anything but money, so when a beautiful Upper East Side woman shows up in his office and hires him to find her missing husband, he smiles and takes the cash. But when this seemingly simple missing-person case turns into homicide, Swann finds himself trapped in a complext web of connections and multiple identities that takes him out of New York City and across two continents.
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Charles Salzberg is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Esquire, GQ, New York magazine, Elle, the New York Times Arts and Leisure, the New York Times Book Review, Redbook, Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, Travel and Leisure and other periodicals. He's also...
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Nov.24.2012
“Antihero PI Swann’s sophomore case (after Swann’s Last Song) delivers the goods in the well-paced literary mystery. Salzberg’s soft-boiled touch makes this...
Author's Publishing Notes
The original hardcover version of Swann's Last Song was published by Five-Star Mystery, Gale/Cengage.
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nominated for a Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel








The first in the Henry Swann detective series had two endings, the original, which the publisher said no to, and another ending that the publisher okay. This edition has both endings, so you, the reader, can choose which one you prefer.