David C. Hall
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David C. Hall
As Donald L. Westlake points out in his Introduction, Return Trip Ticket “honorably continues and extends” the timeless myth of the tarnished knight and the tarnished damsel, a myth that influenced much of the work of writers such as Dashiell Hammett.
Wilson, Hall’s private detective, is the tarnished knight—a tired realist on a hunt for a wandering daughter. The young woman has been living in Barcelona, idly “taking courses.” When she leaves her apartment and her casual communication with her family ceases, her wealthy father engages a detective…
