John Blumenthal

Detective Mac Slade is a wise cracking, smart mouthed P.I. in New York. He plays the tough guy in the style of the 40s. He has a girl Friday named Tuesday. Women find him irresistible and can’t keep their hands off of him. He is cynical but straight. Nothing surprises him.

He is hired by a great looking dame, with legs that don’t quit, to find her missing brother. In his search he runs across quite the assortment of characters. Tough guys, tough cops, dames with gams to don’t quit…at any time, dead bodies and more.

This is a parody of the P.I. genre made famous by Chandler, Hammett, and Cain. Mac is similar to Marlowe, Hammer, Spade and The Continental Op.

If you want a fun read with clichés, snappy patter and action, this is the book. As the cover says, “He’s hard as a rock, tough as nails, dense as concrete.” This felt a little like the movie “Airplane” with the dialogue and characters.

Unfortunately I have found that of the 8 titles that were to be in the series only 2 were ever written and printed. I do have the other one! Yay!… (mehr)

Dorfman is a screenwriter who has come down with a mysterious malady that medical science cannot diagnose. He also has a neurotic doctor father who was convinced that his children were afflicted with every possible disease, and a seriously frakked-up childhood, and all of that goes a long way toward answering the question: what’s wrong with Dorfman? I think this book would make a charming movie starring Steve Martin as the title character. As it is, it is a very readable book that injects new meaning into the term “dysfunctional family.”… (mehr)