A fun piece of PI fiction cowritten in some obscure manner by two
writers. It is a quick read and nonstop action. Great crime fiction. Z Z
Del Presto is hired to spy on a man's wife but instead gets involved
with the lovely daughter Rachel. Unfortunately, several eyewitnesses
see him stab Rachel just as the police pull up. But maybe he is safer in
the pokey since all kinds of hit men are after him. There are places in
the story where the sense of humor particularly with regard to the
descriptions of people and places is just terrific. Indeed, the scene on
the commandeered boat is not to be missed. There are great charcters
here as well. Worth your time reading. ( )

Victor Gischler, writes off-beat little gems. This one was co-authored by Anthony Neil Smith. It was 99 cents for my Kindle and worth much more.

Z.Z. Delpresto, P.I. is not having a good week. He’s been hired to spy on the mother of a girl he ends up making love to only to have her be killed and he is found with the murder weapon in his hand. Delpresto finds nothing going his way. “Amazing how fate can work against us sometimes. We like the think we’re the center of the Solar System, everything revolving around. More likely, we’re the center of the vortex when we flush the toilet.”

Warning: not literature, just fun and when you get as old as I, fun often trumps obscurity. I do, however, draw the line at Gischler’s X-men stuff. ( )

Enjoyable, very fast read about a private detective trying to clear himself of a murder charge. Just a novella, so lacking in complexity, but enjoyable none the less. Not sure who wrote what parts--it certainly isn't as intense as Smith's Yellow Medicine. ( )