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Gehört zur ReiheStanley Hastings (book 15)
Having survived a murderously uncomfortable New England holiday in the much-praised Cozy, private eye Stanley Hastings returns to more familiar New York urban turf with his twisted logic and droll style effectually intact. With Joe Balfour--a client who did time 25 years ago for killing a man in a barroom brawl--Stanley embarks on an ingeniously plotted and frequently hilarious excursion that will confront him continually with embarrassments: like the arrest of his client for the murder of a notorious blackmailer who's been found in his Upper East Side apartment with a carving knife in his back. And before he cracks the case, Stanley will be breaking and entering, contaminating crime scenes, concealing evidence (or else planting it), framing two innocent men for two different homicides, aiding an extortionist, hanging out in a topless bar, blackmailing a few attorneys, and outwitting the cops. This is the fifteenth novel in the long-running mystery series that the New York Times finds "very funny" in its "manic nonsense" and "fiendish constructions of sound logic." Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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A private-eye molded on the old forms, Stanley Hastings makes cracks that, to me, get tiresome. He involves his friend, police sergeant MacAullif, in a blackmail case, and then runs rings around investigators of a murder, trying to keep MacAullif and himself out of it.
A little more specifically, Hastings is nearby when a dead man is discovered, because he has been following the woman who is trying to blackmail his client. He scrambles to keep his involvement and MacAullif's out of the picture, resorting to complicated schemes and tall tales.
It's old-style with a twist of humor, but didn't all the old guys use humor? The references to women are straight out of Sam Spade, with Hastings making the usual comments about their appearance that have become a bit offensive to many of us.
I think it tries too hard to be funny. ( )