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From its punny title (the central character's name is Alex Night) to its noir paraphernalia, this is more a mystery pastiche than a genuine crime novel. Night, the Beverly Hills sleuth who's trying to make a career change--he wants to write mysteries, not investigate them--can't seem to get rid of his last case, a jewel robbery that left one person dead and two others wounded, one of the two being Night himself. While he tries to make time with the beautiful writer in the office across the hall, Night also tries to figure out who was behind the jewel robbery. This is an affectionate, lighthearted homage to the noir mysteries of the 1930s and '40s, and it mostly succeeds. Unfortunately, the author tends to hit readers over the head with allusions to classic mysteries: not only is one character's name strikingly similar to that of a well-known figure in the genre, but Fenady, thinking we might miss it, takes time to point out the similarity. Entertaining (if not particularly subtle) fare for fans of the classic hard-boiled era. David Pitt
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Edgar Award-winning author
From its punny title (the central character's name is Alex Night) to its noir paraphernalia, this is more a mystery pastiche than a genuine crime novel. Night, the Beverly Hills sleuth who's trying to make a career change--he wants to write mysteries, not investigate them--can't seem to get rid of his last case, a jewel robbery that left one person dead and two others wounded, one of the two being Night himself. While he tries to make time with the beautiful writer in the office across the hall, Night also tries to figure out who was behind the jewel robbery. This is an affectionate, lighthearted homage to the noir mysteries of the 1930s and '40s, and it mostly succeeds. Unfortunately, the author tends to hit readers over the head with allusions to classic mysteries: not only is one character's name strikingly similar to that of a well-known figure in the genre, but Fenady, thinking we might miss it, takes time to point out the similarity. Entertaining (if not particularly subtle) fare for fans of the classic hard-boiled era. David Pitt
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Edgar Award-winning author
Andrew J. Fenady has seen it all in Hollywood, and now he takes his insider's knowledge of Tinseltown and whips up a mystery novel that shows the best -- and worst -- the City of Angels has to offer. Alex Night is a private investigator/wanna-be author. Movie stars, hookers, con men, perverts, grifters, writers, producers, directors and assorted characters from the stately pleasure dome in Palm Desert to the seamy streets of Hollywood to the glitter of Rodeo Drive keep interrupting Alex's writing career -- and life -- as he walks a tenuous tightrope, balancing a gun and a typewriter through a maze of murder, mystery and suspense.
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