Gees' First Case [Paperback]

Jack Mann (Author), E. Charles Vivian (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 2, 2008

Original appearance of legendary detective Gregory George Gordon Green (Gees to his friends). In this work, our hero gets in shape for the demons and vampires to follow by tackling Communists.

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About the Author

Jack Mann is the pseudonym of E. Charles Vivian (1882-1947), a well-known British writer who introduced Harry Stephen Keeler to his British publishers. For that alone Ramble House is proud to introduce Jack Mann to readers the world over who missed him the first time around. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 228 pages
• Publisher: Black Mask (August 2, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159654449X
• ISBN-13: 978-1596544499
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,114,214 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars ROBOT READS GEE'S FIRST CASE, November 3, 2010

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drkhimxz (Freehold, NJ, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gee's First Case (Paperback)

Apparently, from the listing, I could not have gotten this ebook from kindel. I may have gotten the text from manybooks or another offering free texts, and then transferred it via computer to Kindle. If one has followed their procedures, the book is then read by the kindle software. I used the male kindle voice. If you are not accustomed to this artificial voice, it will take some getting used to; however, I have found it worth the absence of the high price one must pay for the average actor read audio book (although these are measurably more pleasurable). Hopefully, Amazon will tinker with the software to produce a better reading than it now gives, although the existing one meets the minimum standards of adequacy.
As to the book (as listened to not read), it is a surprisingly contemporary adventure story with an anti-communist twist (although the author makes sure to let us know that the communist group is not affiliated with the then USSR.) Dating from the mid thirties, it recounts the first unpaid venture by a recent police officer who resigned to found his own private detective firm (with,in good Richard Diamond-Sam Spade fashion, a private secretary as sole employee). There are the beautiful communist secretary, merciless save when in love, the blood-thirsty saboteur-revolutionaries, and the shrewd police Anti-Red Squad who play their parts in the drama. In what was to become typical in the forties and fifties, the private detective is humorous, anti-authoritarian, and brave.
There is nothing dated save for the absence of such amenities as the photo-taking, texting, computer cell phone.
All-in-all, the book can be recommended to those who like such adventures without much of the detailed cruelty and brutality that cloaks contemporary versions in a haze of blood.