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It is a detective story from around the 1960s. The main character cheated on his wife and has been digging a ditch as penance. Hippies are setting up a new restaurant, and one of them gets murdered right before the opening. There is also a crooked cop who ends up getting murdered. I've been trying to remember the title for 2 years. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? It's a very good book.

>> No.20231831

Sounds like some JP Manchette

>> No.20231850

>>20231831
I don't think so. I thought it might be
"No Room at the Morgue", but I checked the description and it doesn't ring any bells. Thanks for the idea though.

>> No.20231872
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>>20231831
It might be from the Ripley series by this qt

>> No.20231971

>>20231826
Murder Among Children, one of the Mitch Tobin series by Donald E. Westlake (under the pen name Tucker Coe). The main character was building a wall, and that included a ditch.