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YA?Joe Sixsmith, a black private investigator working in the failing factory town of Lufton, England, becomes the object of police inquiry after he has the misfortune of being found at the crime scene both times prominent lawyers are murdered. As he attempts to clear his name, Sixsmith's attention is divided because he is also attempting to find the source of threats sent to a popular young athlete, Zak Oto. The world-class runner is being pressured to throw a New Year's Day race at the grand opening of Lufton Pleasure Dome, touted as the opportunity to rejuvenate a fading community. Juggling his own dilemma with the police and the puzzling threats, Sixsmith works his way through the many strata of Lufton's high and low life, meeting unsavory track and sports denizens, snobby lawyers, and the baffling Oto family. No matter how messy his life becomes, Sixsmith and his cat Whitey always manage to land on their feet and see that the culprits are caught. This third Joe Sixsmith mystery is loaded with the street slang and local color that underlies the serious social questions Hill delivers to his readers as the story unfolds and Joe's problems take on multifaceted dimensions. A mystery with a thoughtful message conveyed by an offbeat private detective.?Mary T. Gerrity, Queen Anne School, Upper Marlboro, MD
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Given even John Grisham's jaundiced view of the legal profession, it's not so surprising that Luton p.i. Joe Sixsmith's attempt to boost the insurance payout for his wrecked car by consulting Pollinger, Potter, Naysmith, Montaigne, and Iles should be met first with physical resistance (overdefensive Iles), then with brusque dismissal (curt Potter). But Joe gets the last word when Peter Potter's found dead shortly after throwing Joe out, and Sandra Iles--the most likely suspect in Joe's view--removes herself from contention by getting her neck equally broken. When Felix Naysmith gets attacked while he's on the phone with Joe, however, the coppers think the little shamus's involvement is too suspicious to amount to mere carelessness. Meantime, Joe's pressured from another quarter as well: Somebody who's been gently encouraging local track phenomenon Zak Oto to throw her big race New Year's Day if she wants her family--and now, evidently, her private eye--to go on living. The two cases never exactly grow together, but they overlap in some highly entertaining ways (think illicit romance and clerical error), and the denouement proves that certain key suspects were a lot more clever than they seemed. Joe's third (Born Guilty, 1995, etc.) isn't as funny as his best, but the creator of the immortal Dalziel and Pascoe could plot rings around the competition with one hand while ticking off the dead lawyers with the other. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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YA?Joe Sixsmith, a black private investigator working in the failing factory town of Lufton, England, becomes the object of police inquiry after he has the misfortune of being found at the crime scene both times prominent lawyers are murdered. As he attempts to clear his name, Sixsmith's attention is divided because he is also attempting to find the source of threats sent to a popular young athlete, Zak Oto. The world-class runner is being pressured to throw a New Year's Day race at the grand opening of Lufton Pleasure Dome, touted as the opportunity to rejuvenate a fading community. Juggling his own dilemma with the police and the puzzling threats, Sixsmith works his way through the many strata of Lufton's high and low life, meeting unsavory track and sports denizens, snobby lawyers, and the baffling Oto family. No matter how messy his life becomes, Sixsmith and his cat Whitey always manage to land on their feet and see that the culprits are caught. This third Joe Sixsmith mystery is loaded with the street slang and local color that underlies the serious social questions Hill delivers to his readers as the story unfolds and Joe's problems take on multifaceted dimensions. A mystery with a thoughtful message conveyed by an offbeat private detective.?Mary T. Gerrity, Queen Anne School, Upper Marlboro, MD
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Kirkus Reviews
Given even John Grisham's jaundiced view of the legal profession, it's not so surprising that Luton p.i. Joe Sixsmith's attempt to boost the insurance payout for his wrecked car by consulting Pollinger, Potter, Naysmith, Montaigne, and Iles should be met first with physical resistance (overdefensive Iles), then with brusque dismissal (curt Potter). But Joe gets the last word when Peter Potter's found dead shortly after throwing Joe out, and Sandra Iles--the most likely suspect in Joe's view--removes herself from contention by getting her neck equally broken. When Felix Naysmith gets attacked while he's on the phone with Joe, however, the coppers think the little shamus's involvement is too suspicious to amount to mere carelessness. Meantime, Joe's pressured from another quarter as well: Somebody who's been gently encouraging local track phenomenon Zak Oto to throw her big race New Year's Day if she wants her family--and now, evidently, her private eye--to go on living. The two cases never exactly grow together, but they overlap in some highly entertaining ways (think illicit romance and clerical error), and the denouement proves that certain key suspects were a lot more clever than they seemed. Joe's third (Born Guilty, 1995, etc.) isn't as funny as his best, but the creator of the immortal Dalziel and Pascoe could plot rings around the competition with one hand while ticking off the dead lawyers with the other. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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