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Easy (Flap Tucker Mysteries) [Kindle Edition]

Phillip DePoy
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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A missing woman. A killer on the loose. And an Atlanta private eye who meditates his way to the truth....

Check out the Majestic Diner At 3 a.m. Look for a man named Flap and a woman named Dalliance...

Flap Tucker isn't like other private eyes. He's a mystic, a finder of lost things, a veteran of a foreign war who lives on the wrong side of town and lets his mind go freely to nirvana. Now, in the city that Sherman burned but didn't bury, where good ol' boys and transvestite hookers pass in the downtown Atlanta night, Flap Tucker is beginning the strangest case of his already strange career.

Flap's best friend, the beautiful nightclub owner Dalliance Oglethorpe, wants Flap to find the vanished wife of a millionaire scion--a half-wit who may have made the woman up in the first place. Real or not, Flap starts looking for one Augusta Donne, and finds, instead, the brutal murders of two topless dancers and a transvestite who was ritually slain. Each step of the way, the case grows more sinister, until Flap suddenly reaches that place only he can go: where all the universe is interconnected, where a Zenlike truth illuminates the path, and where Flap Tucker, the man with all the answers, is standing in a killer's way....

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A missing woman.  A killer on the loose.  And an Atlanta private eye who meditates his way to the truth....

Check out the Majestic Diner At 3 a.m.  Look for a man named Flap and a woman named Dalliance...

Flap Tucker isn't like other private eyes.  He's a mystic, a finder of lost things, a veteran of a foreign war who lives on the wrong side of town and lets his mind go freely to nirvana.  Now, in the city that Sherman burned but didn't bury, where good ol' boys and transvestite hookers pass in the downtown Atlanta night, Flap Tucker is beginning the strangest case of his already strange career.

Flap's best friend, the beautiful nightclub owner Dalliance Oglethorpe, wants Flap to find the vanished wife of a millionaire scion--a half-wit who may have made the woman up in the first place.  Real or not, Flap starts looking for one Augusta Donne, and finds, instead, the brutal murders of two topless dancers and a transvestite who was ritually slain.  Each step of the way, the case grows more sinister, until Flap suddenly reaches that place only he can go: where all the universe is interconnected, where a Zenlike truth illuminates the path, and where Flap Tucker, the man with all the answers, is standing in a killer's way....



Phillip DePoy has published short fiction, poetry, and criticism in Story, The Southern Poetry Review, Xanadu, Yankee, and other magazines.  He is currently the creative director of the Maurice Townsend Center for the Performing Arts at the State University of West Georgia, and has had many productions of his plays at regional theaters throughout the south.  He is the recipient of numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the state of Georgia, the Georgia Council for the Arts, the Arts Festival of Atlanta, the South Carolina Council for the Arts, etc.  He composed the scores for the regional Angels in America and other productions and has played in a numerous jazz and folk bands.  In his work as a folklorist he has collected songs and stories throughout Georgia and has worked with John Burrison, the foremost folklorist in the south and with Joseph Cambell.  Nexus Press published his nonfiction essay and photo collection, Messages from Beyond.  Easy is his first novel.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 409 KB
  • Print Length: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Dell (March 30, 1999)
  • Sold by: Random House Digital, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B000FC1HU0
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #204,754 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy Does It, July 21, 2000
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Philip Depoy is the thinking man's mystery writer. I hesitate to say "private eye" writer, because Flap Tucker insists that he is not a detective, merely a "finder of lost things", and it's something he does very well.

In other mysteries, coincidences are the bane of the reader and the deus ex machina of the writer. It's often too hard to believe that such disparate events have a common root. In this novel, Depoy hands it all over with a wink & a nudge and makes it all believable.

Flap is looking for the wife of one of Atlanta's nouveau riche. Only problem? The guy is possibly slow and probably imagining her. He's also asked to uncover the truth behind the "devil man" or demon who is terrorizing the proprietor of a local Asian restaurant. Are they related? Sure! How? Read the book.

Depoy's Atlanta is an almost fairy-tale place, where angels and demons walk with equal impunity. I know from experience that it sounds better here than it really is.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Dalliance with Great Writing, April 20, 2000
Easy? Yeah...easy read, easygoing characters, easy to fall in love with the Flap Tucker series. After reading EASY, I flapped onto Amazon and ordered the next and the next. It was...uh...easy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars COMPLETELY ORIGINAL, August 29, 2011
This review is from: Easy (Flap Tucker Mysteries) (Kindle Edition)
Author Phillip DePoy has written a brilliant first novel. If you're a fan of the mystery genre, if you've read the classics and have hoped for a fresh new voice, this is it. In Flap Tucker, DePoy has managed to reinvent the classic private detective. Although the author has moved on to a another genre, fortunately he left behind a wonderful series of "Easy" books. (4 1/2 Stars)
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Phillip DePoy is an Edgar Award winning playwright, and author of more than a dozen published books. His play Lamb on Fire was produced in New York. He has been called "a master Southern storyteller" by Kirkus Reviews and "adept at clever word play" by Publisher's Weekly. THE KING JAMES CONSPIRACY has been compared, in BookList, to Umberto Eco's THE NAME OF THE ROSE. In a recent review, Kirkus said of his new novel A CORPSE'S NIGHTMARE, "Nobody writes Southern better than DePoy." In addition to his other pursuits, the author is currently Director of Theatre at Clayton State University.

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