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When two women are found dead, smothered on their couches with tapes of Claire Hunt and her Home Mall shopping show playing in their VCRs, Claire and her husband Gil decide to play detective and find the killer themselves...I really wanted to like this. After a so-so experience with another Randisi ...
After his police career in New York is ruined, Joe Keough moves to Saint Louis, Missouri, and gets a job with the Richmond Heights PD. An hour into his first day, a three year old boy walks into the police station, leaving a trail of bloody footprints. But he connected to the string of murder-kidnap...
As is true of just about every short story collection, this is uneven. I would have given it 2 stars except for the amusing surprise of finding Harlan Ellison in a noir crime collection instead of his usual home in speculative fiction.
I always enjoy the Rat Pack stories and this one was no exception. Eddie is called on by Joey Bishop to help Abby Dalton out with a little blackmail problem. Jerry just happens to be in town with a cousin celebrating the cousin's 21st birthday, so he goes along as muscle. Things are settled prett...
I always enjoy a visit with Eddie G & Jery and the Rat Pack crew. But the Rat Pack boys don't figure as strongly in this one. Dean Martin makes a couple of appearances and he's the one who actually hooks Eddie & Jerry up with Bing Crosby. Sinatra's appearance is more of a cameo when he comes to t...
I love this series of books, but must say that the editing in this one was awful! I usually don't pay a lot of attention to that if the story is good enough, but just couldn't ignore it this time. This was published by a British publishing house. I've read one other book that I can think of from ...
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