'In A Manner Of Speaking' is a fast paced mystery novel in which private detective and recovering gambling addict Chuck Millstone is retained by a deranged kidnapper. The kidnapper informs Millstone that he has abducted teenager, Andrea Masterson, but Millstone's involvement will have little to do with the kidnapping. While trying to unravel the kidnapper's purpose for hiring him, Millstone receives a call from a revenge seeking stalker, who tells the detective that he is going to kill him. Notes, phone calls, threats, from the stalker dominate the action and interfere with Millstone's involvement with the kidnapping. A surprise breakthrough unravels the mystery and leads to a final confrontation involving the detective, the kidnapper and the stalker. Love, intrigue, murders, threats to the detective's family and multiple abductions are interspersed throughout, making for a can't put down reading experience for devoted mystery readers..