Winner of the Mystery Novel Award

A down on his luck disbarred Philadelphia lawyer, working now as a bar piano player, must solve the murder of the managing partner of his former law firm. As he peels away layer after layer of intrigue, he finds himself pursued simultaneously by the police, the Mafia, and a psychopathic skinhead. Meanwhile, he continues his secret, unconsummated liaison with a judge whose husband becomes one of his prime suspects, while he carries on a real affair with a stripper. When he becomes the prime suspect in the murder, he must draw on all of his skills to find the real killer.

A graduate of Wesleyan University and Harvard Law School, Bruce Hartman has been a practicing attorney for twenty years. He resides in the Philadelphia area. Perfectly Healthy Man Drops Dead is his first novel.

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"Perfectly Healthy Man Drops Dead is a gripping mystery from first page to last, a top pick for community library mystery collections."—Midwest Book Review