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Bezig met laden... The Girl Who Wasn't Theredoor Thomas B. Dewey
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This one falls about in the middle of the Mac series (8 of 16) and is just about everything you want in a PI novel. It is well written and easy to read. It starts out with quite a merciless bang and has you, as well as Mac looking for answers about who killed his friend and his friend's wife a year later. Mac has little to go in but hunches, but in typical hardboiled fashion, it includes rich dames, hardened hoods, nightclubs, and things that go boom. Although some of these plot lines can be found elsewhere, Dewey manages to keep a few surprises under wraps for much of the book. This was a terrific read and stands up well against any of the fifties-era private eye novels. Leaves me ready to dig into more of this sixteen book series. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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The trail Mac found himself trying to follow was very cold. Another private detective - his friend Barry Henley - had been killed a year earlier in a fall from a tenth-story window, and the cops had written it off as accidental. But when Hensley's widow told Mac that several people had tried to get into her apartment under various pretexts; when Mac found she was being followed; and when the mug shot she picked out of the police department files proved to be that of a very tough egg, Whiskey Davis - suddenly Henley's death began to look like murder. Mac knew for sure when the next death couldn't have been accidental. A bomb that blows up car and driver when the ignition is turned is never anything but murder... "Mac is one of our best private eyes." - San Francisco Chronicle "Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" - Bill Pronzini "More than one rub-out for private eye Mac to run through when a man with a well-minked wife is shot down by a police sergeant from Steel City, outside of Chicago. Exit also for an attorney, a safecracker and assorted others who are linked to the importance of teenage Marianne, the rehabilitation project of moneyman Lloyd, and a series of black-mailing pictures. Scrappy all the way." - Kirkus Reviews "Mac has been called one of the most believable and humane PI's in crime fiction. He is reluctant to use either his gun or his fists, but will do so when the situation demands it, or in self-defense; he doesn't merely solve his clients' cases, but provides moral support and sympathy as well; and perhaps most notable of all, Mac feels, and is not afraid to show it?pain, loss, sorrow, loneliness." -thrillingdetective.com Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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