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Bezig met laden... Double or Quits (1941) (origineel 1941; editie 1941)door A A Fair (Pseudonym), Erle Stanley Gardner (Auteur), Robert McGinnis (Artiest omslagafbeelding)
Informatie over het werkDouble or Quits door A. A. Fair (1941)
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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. GGardner's Lam and Cool mystery series is not as well known as his Perry Mason series. They are a mismatched Odd Couple pairing of private eyes. Bertha Cool is an overweight ovebearing penny pincher with zero in people skills. Donald Lam is the brains of the outfit and eventually solves their cases. While these mysteries are not filled with chase scenes or all out battles, they are generally witty, clever, and worth reading. Double or Quits involves a safecracker, missing jewels, a bicycle-riding tennis playing woman, q tricky garage door, and murder. However, its not quite the smooth read the other books in the series are and somewhere along the line, the reader gets left behind on one of the twists and turns. This early book in the series is the one where Donald goes from employee of B Cool to partner in Cool and Lam. It starts as an apparently simple case of stolen jewelry but dead bodies quickly start popping up in unexpected places. The book includes a couple of delicious scenes with Bertha and Elsie (both together, and separately), and as always in these books I enjoyed the pre-WWII Los Angeles setting. Having said that, it isn't among my favorites in the series. The plot feels a bit random, and none of the supporting cast turns out to be even remotely sympathetic. And the scene were Donald beats up an insurance adjuster felt completely gratuitous. I guess there has to be at least an occasional case sans a sweet young thing in need of brainy rescuer. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Cool and Lam (5)
The search for stolen jewels and a missing woman yields deadly trouble for an LA detective duo in this hard-boiled mystery by the creator of Perry Mason. Side by side, Bertha Cool and Donald Lam make quite the odd couple of private investigators. She's a fifty-something-year-old widow, built like a bulldog, with the personality to match. He's a wiry, ex-lawyer in his thirties with a lightning-quick wit that always helps him out of a jam, including the one he finds himself in with their latest case . . . After Dr. Milton Devarest discovered his wife's jewelry stolen from their safe, they noticed his wife's secretary was also missing. Certain of what happened, Devarest asks Bertha and Donald to locate the secretary and persuade her to return the jewelry, no questions asked. But when Donald heads to Devarest's home to get some answers, all he finds are more questions--and a body . . . "The best American writer, of course, is Erle Stanley Gardner." --Evelyn Waugh "Gardner has a way of moving the story forward that is almost a lost art: great stretches of dialogue alternate with lively chunks of exposition, and the two work together perfectly, without sacrificing momentum." --Booklist Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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I have bought another book from this series, and I do hope it turns out to be better than this one... ( )