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Mystery Girl: A Novel - David Gordon
Mystery Girl: A Novel
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When Sam Kornberg’s wife, Lala, walks out on him, he’s an unemployed used-book store clerk and failed experimental novelist with a broken heart. Desperate to win her back, he takes a job as assistant detective to the enigmatic Solar Lonsky, a private eye who might be an eccentric and morbid... show more
When Sam Kornberg’s wife, Lala, walks out on him, he’s an unemployed used-book store clerk and failed experimental novelist with a broken heart. Desperate to win her back, he takes a job as assistant detective to the enigmatic Solar Lonsky, a private eye who might be an eccentric and morbid genius or just a morbidly obese madman. It’s a simple tail job, following a beautiful and mysterious lady around L.A., but Sam soon finds himself helplessly falling for his quarry and hopelessly entangled in a murder case involving Satanists, succubi, underground filmmakers, Hollywood bigshots, Mexican shootouts, video-store geekery, and sexy doppelgangers from beyond the grave. A case that highlights the risks of hardcore reading and mourns the death of the novel—or perhaps just the decline of Western Civilization. Mystery Girl is a thriller about the dangers of marriage and a detective story about the unsolvable mysteries of love, art, and other people.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780544028586 (0544028589)
ASIN: 544028589
Publisher: New Harvest
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
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Tiffany's Bookshelf
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3.0 Mystery Girl
Kari@ From the TBR Pile
Kari@ From the TBR Pile rated it
2.0 Mystery Girl: A Novel
In Mystery Girl, Sam Kronberg's wife leaves him because he has no job. He writes books that no one would want to read. In an attempt to get her back, he takes a job as an assistant to a detective. This takes him on a crazy journey to find out about the woman he initially followed, the slept with ...
Jessica (HDB)
Jessica (HDB) rated it
4.0 Mystery Girl
Genre: Mystery / Noir Recommended to: Readers who enjoy books with a noir flair, and don't mind a bit of flowery language. First Thoughts: Mystery Girl was what my grandmother likes to call an "odd duck". I don't know what I was expecting it to be when I accepted it for review, but I can tell ...
Unabridged Chick
Unabridged Chick rated it
The jacket blurb sums this novel up perfectly: It’s as if Tarantino had remade Vertigo after bingeing on Nero Wolfe novels. Our hero, Sam Kornberg, loves modern, experimental fiction; his best friend works in a video store and trade in the obscure and hard-to-find, the cultish and beloved. His fox...
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