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Space Case (The Nick Files Book 2) Kindle Edition
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- Reading age8 - 18 years
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJuly 21, 2013
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Editorial Reviews
From the Author
While I presented the script version of "Lost Claus" around to people, I got a lot of positive feedback on it, to the point an agent wanted me to pitch the character as a TV series, with "Claus" as the pilot episode, as it were. Even though it didn't fly, I had put together a series bible of characters and plots the show would do. That stuff has been sitting on my hard drive for a while now.
After I wrote "Lost Claus," I was asked to submit a short story to "Love and Other Distractions." One of my files was a tale of Nick Flebber and Cupid, so I wrote that up. It came out very well, so I decided it was time to dust the others off and put them out there. "Space Case" was the obvious place to start. I wanted to try a non-holiday adventure, plus it was one that pulled together a lot of fun characters and paid homage to so many of my favorite sci-fi films. It was one of two of the most fleshed-out pitches I had (a script was actually written), so the framework for the case was there, and I just had to flesh it out.
And a fine, funny tale it is.
From the Back Cover
is cheating on me. But I can't prove it."
"And you want me to?"
"Yes," she whispered.
P.I. Nick Flebber is back on the case! This time a suspicious wife hires the hard-boiled detective to tail a wayward husband. A husband who seems to be able to slip out of the house without a trace and return as if he never left. A husband who seems to be having issues at his top-secret tech job. Soon Nick is up to his fedora in corporate espionage, street crazies and very illegal aliens. And if that wasn't bad enough, he's got to hire a secretary to boot!
What they're saying about "Space Case:"
"Klaatu barada nikto"
--Mr. Carpenter
"Shazbot!"
--Mork From Ork
"This book is delicious. Almost as delicious as mankind!"
--Kanamit Leader, author, "To Serve Man"
"Space Case is a light bite by comic wordsmith Dan Fiorella. He has a wonderfulway of milking seemingly small moments for comic gold...Fun stuff."
--Annie Young Frisbie, writer, Hallmark Channel's
"The Good Witch's Destiny."
This latest case lifted from the Nick Files is a Sci-fi send-up where crime noir meets dark matter. It tears the Space/Time Continuum a new one!
About the Author
Product details
- ASIN : B00E3XRM56
- Publication date : July 21, 2013
- Language : English
- File size : 530 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 124 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,980,082 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #13,091 in General Humorous Fiction
- #28,939 in Humorous Fiction
- #98,516 in Mysteries (Kindle Store)
- Customer Reviews:
About the author

Dan Fiorella lives in New York City. Downtown New York. Very downtown. Okay, he lives in Staten Island. He has written for stage, screen and radio speaker. From Cracked magazine to Prairie Home Companion, his comedy insights and insults have given belly laughs to the masses.
In addition to Cracked, he's been published in MAD, Reader's Digest, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, the Staten Island Advance, Weekly World News and, in France, his Sherlock Holmes parody was included in the anthology "Sherlock Holmes Dans Tous Ses États."
He's worked on "The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers" and "The Start of Something Big" for TV and written comedy material for the American Comedy Network and All Star Radio. And was the writer for the PC game "The Lost Cases of Sherlock Homes 2."
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The humor here is jokey, bordering on parody. But, for every obvious joke there were a few really clever or sly observations, and every now and then there was a particularly engaging bit of dialogue or narrative. The writing can switch from lite to a bit edgy and then back to lite again in a wink, which keeps it from just being just the same one-note joke over and over.
To be fair, the book starts out a bit slowly and doesn't necessarily feel very promising. But, once the opening is set and the characters are introduced in the first few pages it gets up to speed nicely and maintains its momentum as it carries the reader along on a cheerfully antic wave.
The story has its bizarro elements. Our hero is dating Santa Claus's daughter. Alien space technology is involved. But that stuff just spices up the tale; the story doesn't turn on those elements and the book isn't pumped up with just antic silliness, which can be wearing. Rather, the book is mostly carried by the dry running narrative of the hero, who can be rueful, manic, snarky, resigned, confused, or just fed up. It helps that our p.i. hero, Nick Flebber, is an engaging and generally good-humored companion who holds our interest and sympathy.
So, a pleasant and entertaining find featuring some snappy writing and clever humor. Very nice. (Please note that I found this book while browsing kindleunlimited freebies. I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)
Another hardboiled story featuring PI Nick Flebber, whose caustic take on the world stands at odds with his romance with the daughter of Santa Claus.
Review:
Space Case is a light bite by comic wordsmith Dan Fiorella. He has a wonderful way of milking seemingly small moments for comic gold, and I found myself snickering frequently as I read the story. The plot and story are beside the point, but he does a great job connecting all the dots and making it look easy. Fun stuff.
Hope we see more Nick Flebber stories in the future