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What I Tell You Three Times Is False (1987)

von Samuel Holt

Reihen: Sam Holt Mystery (3)

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Sam Holt played TV-detective Jack Packard for five years, and he doesn't want to do it again. Not in a movie, not in dinner theater, not even in a commercial for the American Cancer Society. But his tough-minded girlfriend (It's not about you) has carried the day, and now he's stuck on an isolated island, hunting clues to a cancer cure alongside Charlie Chan, Miss Marple, and Sherlock Holmes. The script says they're doomed to failure (translation: Donate money to cancer research). And when a genuine murder crops up, their sleuthing isn't likely to my much more successful; after all, these folks are not famous detectives, they just play'em on TV. But with the cops cut off by a storm and a killer stalking the island, Holt and Co. must play detective for real. A suspenseful tale from a mystery novelist who seems to improve with every outing -- Booklist A clever multiple-murder mystery ...readers will have a lot of fun with this one - Buffalo News… (mehr)
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The late Donald E. Westlake was such a prolific writer that he could afford to do what a few other prolific writers such as Stephen King and Joyce Carol Oates have done — write novels under another name in order to have more than one new book in bookstores at the same time. Westlake had another purpose back in the 1980s: He wanted to see whether his books would sell as well if readers and reviewers didn't know he was the one writing them. Thus came a brief series of books under the name of Samuel Holt.

His experiment failed miserably because his publisher couldn't keep the secret. Their business is selling books, after all, and they knew Westlake books would sell better than Holt books. So the series was short-lived. One of these novels is “What I Tell You Three Times Is False” (1987), a meaningless title except that it tells you it's the third book in the series. Other titles include “One of Us Is Wrong” and “I Know a Trick or Two of That.”

This mystery falls somewhere between the comic caper novels Westlake wrote under his own name and the hardboiled Parker novels he wrote under the name of Richard Stark. It may remind you of one of those Agatha Christie novels where a group of people are isolated and then murdered one after the other. In this case several actors known for playing famous fictional detectives, along with a few other people, gather on a remote island to make a film for charity. The murders, plus a prolonged tropical storm, force the actors to try to equal the detective skills of their fictional personas, the likes of Sherlock Holmes, Jane Marple and Charlie Chan.

Sam Holt, who played a popular TV detective named Jack Packard and who is the actor most eager to put the role behind him, is nevertheless the one who eventually identities the murderer. The novel stays interesting and fun while never becoming exciting or memorable. Westlake may have had another good reason to want to publish this book under another name. ( )
  hardlyhardy | Jan 31, 2022 |
A classic of the ' And Then There Were None' type with ten people isolated on an island by a severe storm and they begin to be killed one by one after ther communication is cut off. There is an ersatz Sherlock Holmes, Charlie Chan Miss Jane Marple as well as an American PI Jack Packard on site with a twist at the end. This was fun to read. ( )
  Condorena | Apr 2, 2013 |
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Sam Holt played TV-detective Jack Packard for five years, and he doesn't want to do it again. Not in a movie, not in dinner theater, not even in a commercial for the American Cancer Society. But his tough-minded girlfriend (It's not about you) has carried the day, and now he's stuck on an isolated island, hunting clues to a cancer cure alongside Charlie Chan, Miss Marple, and Sherlock Holmes. The script says they're doomed to failure (translation: Donate money to cancer research). And when a genuine murder crops up, their sleuthing isn't likely to my much more successful; after all, these folks are not famous detectives, they just play'em on TV. But with the cops cut off by a storm and a killer stalking the island, Holt and Co. must play detective for real. A suspenseful tale from a mystery novelist who seems to improve with every outing -- Booklist A clever multiple-murder mystery ...readers will have a lot of fun with this one - Buffalo News

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