The Hastened to the Grave: The Gypsy Murder Investigation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312183622)

In June of 1994, the Oakland Tribune cracked a story of a string of bizarre deaths in the San Francisco area. The victims were elderly, well-to-do and, in each case, had been befriended by members of an extended Gypsy family -- the Tene Bimbos.

Fay Faron, also known as Rat Dog Dick, a dynamic and unconventional private investigator in the Bay Area, was contacted by a lawyer to investigate the strange accusations of an elderly widow who claimed she was being swindled out of her hilltop mansion by a young man named Danny Tene. Within days, the widow was dead and Danny Tene stood to inherit a fortune. Olsen chronicles Faron's hunt for Danny Tene, his mother Mary Steiner, and his beautiful sister Angela -- a family of suspected con artists who may have been responsible for the deaths of as many as five helpless elderly men and women, whose property -- and possibly whose lives -- the family allegedly stole.

Author: Jack Olsen
ISBN-10: 0312183623
ISBN-13: 9780312183622
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1998
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.49h x 6.30w x 1.04d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/13/1998 pg. 62
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/1998 pg. 561
Booklist 05/01/1998 pg. 1483
Library Journal 05/01/1998 pg. 118
New York Times 05/31/1998 pg. 46