Sneaky People
by:
Thomas Berger (author)
The time is the 1930s. Buddy Sandifer, dressed in his natty white flannels, baby-blue shirt, striped tie, tan-and-white shoes, and coconut-straw hat with polka-dot band, is falling into one of his moods. Owner of a used-car lot and father of a fifteen-year-old son with a penchant for sex manuals,...
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The time is the 1930s. Buddy Sandifer, dressed in his natty white flannels, baby-blue shirt, striped tie, tan-and-white shoes, and coconut-straw hat with polka-dot band, is falling into one of his moods. Owner of a used-car lot and father of a fifteen-year-old son with a penchant for sex manuals, Buddy has decided to murder his wife and marry his mistress, Laverne, a robust blonde who cooks his favorite meal of fried pork chops, fried potatoes, and fried apples while wearing a short pink apron over black-lace step-ins and brassiere, long-gartered silk stockings, and platform shoes. The only problem is how to arrange the crime.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780743257954 (0743257952)
ASIN: 743257952
Publish date: June 21st 2005
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
An entertaining and genuinely humorous noirish tale of infidelity and murder set in the 1930s, filled with "sneaky people", doing all the little dirty deeds people are prone to do, deeds that spin out of control, as these things are prone to do, in an engaging comedy of "dark" errors.Berger doesn't ...
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