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4.0 out of 5 stars
Tries too hard,
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This review is from: Client (Paperback)
A first person narrator comic private eye mystery. It's set in Manhattan, with upstate and Jersey excursions, in the 80's (computers but no cell phones or e-mail or GPS or caller ID). Stanley Hastings the bumbling detective is fooled by a client and framed for a murder. It's ingeniously plotted and gets funny and suspenseful at times. Perhaps Hall tried rather too hard to be funny. Some of the humor is repetitious and the point about Hall being a middle-aged family man with financial problems is rubbed in too many times. There are bits of slapstick business and many references to movies. The spoof on Chandler's Philip Marlowe is rather an old joke by now. Chandler himself produced some great one-liners and Marlowe was adept at wry self-denigration.
That sounds a bit negative but it's good entertainment and I've just ordered "Caper" the latest in the series |
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Client by Parnell Hall (Hardcover - May 1, 1990)
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