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Robert Campbell (1)

Auteur van Nibbled to Death by Ducks

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Robert Campbell (1) via een alias veranderd in Robert Wright Campbell.

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Werken van Robert Campbell

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Nibbled to Death by Ducks (1989) 89 exemplaren
The Junkyard Dog (1986) 78 exemplaren
Alice in La-La Land (1987) 76 exemplaren
The Cat's Meow (1988) 57 exemplaren
Sweet La La Land (1990) 54 exemplaren
The Gift Horse's Mouth (1990) 53 exemplaren
The 600-Pound Gorilla (Signet) (1987) 47 exemplaren
In a Pig's Eye (1991) 44 exemplaren
Thinning the Turkey Herd (1987) 43 exemplaren
Hip-Deep in Alligators (1987) 40 exemplaren
Plugged Nickel (1988) 34 exemplaren
The Wizard of La-LA Land (1995) 27 exemplaren
Red Cent (1989) 23 exemplaren

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Officiële naam
Campbell, Robert Wright
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
Campbell, R. Wright
Clinton, F. G.
Geboortedatum
1927-06-09
Overlijdensdatum
2000-09-21
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Woonplaatsen
Carmel, California, USA
Opleiding
Pratt Institute
Beroepen
playwright
script writer
novelist

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Whistler finds and loses an old love whose son and ex also cross paths. Fate catches all
 
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ritaer | Jun 2, 2020 |
sex & violence & plot twists in LA show biz & sex business world
 
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ritaer | 2 andere besprekingen | May 19, 2020 |
The Gift Horse's Mouth is the seventh in this series and Jimmy Flannery teaches us more about politics in a most painless manner as he again gets involved with dead bodies. In this case the investigation into the death of Florence "Goldie" Hanrahan--right-hand women to Boss Carrigan--strikes too close to home when Boss Carrigan asks Jimmy to take a look and report back to him. Was it death by misadventure or was it murder? Great characters as usual for Campbell's stories; little twists and turns and always, always Chicago politics as they were--at their worse and at their best--and always as interesting as the who-dun-it.… (meer)
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SmithfieldJones | Aug 24, 2019 |
The 600-pound Gorilla is the second book out of Campbell’s eleven- book Jimmy Flannery series. These books tell the story of the end of old-style machine politics in Chicago and the growing pains that the city experiences as it changes and meets modernity.
For Flannery, Chicago is all about being a party worker who serves his community by doing favor for favor. Others more entrenched see favor for favor as something less benign but more entwining. It’s a system whereby they are all entwined and all beholden to one another. Each Flannery book involves a murder and its usually a murder that someone wants to sweep under the rug because it is more convenient or someone owes someone a favor or something of the like.

Here, the changing of the guard is represented by the Alderman’s seat for the 27th and Flannery’s sponsor, Chips Delvin, is looking more like an old elephant who can’t keep up with the changing ethnic face of the ward. The new face of the ward just might be Janet Canarias, who is not someone the old guard is comfortable with, what with her being lesbian. Deals are going to have to be made to keep her from getting the alderman’s seat. Maybe, even Flannery is going to be set up to take the seat.

Against this backdrop of politics and the changing nature of this part of Chicago is the murder that Flannery feels like he has to solve – even if no one else wants to. Baby, the city’s prized Gorilla, has to find temporary housing during a blizzard when the city zoo’s steam plant is on the fritz.

A gay bathhouse seems like the perfect solution for a tropical beast like a gorilla or, at least, it is until the next morning when the gorilla is marked up with a chain and two dead bodies are found with her. The two corpses were guests in Flannery’s ward even if no one else cares to figure it out. He feels a responsibility to figure this out and not let it get swept under the rug. He is like a junkyard dog in that respect – once he gets his teeth in something, he won’t let go.

The book is written as if narrated by Flannery and Campbell gets the attitude down flat. Flannery’s voice and diction are heard clear above anything else. The book is written well and reads quite smoothly. It is unnecessary to read the first book in the series to dive into this one, although sometimes the background will help if nothing else but to know who all the shady characters are.
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14
Leden
666
Populariteit
#37,863
Waardering
½ 3.4
Besprekingen
16
ISBNs
117
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