John Blumenthal
Auteur de Millard Fillmore, Mon Amour: A Novel
Séries
Œuvres de John Blumenthal
Passing Wind of Love 3 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1949
- Sexe
- male
- Lieu de naissance
- Middletown, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Middletown, New York, USA
- Études
- Tufts University
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 9
- Membres
- 141
- Popularité
- #145,671
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 9
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!… (plus d'informations)