Fast Shuffle
A Novel
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Beschreibung des Verlags
An old-school PI is plunged into modern danger and conspiracy in Fast Shuffle, a gripping mystery from TV screenwriter and producer David Black.
Harry Dickinson is a used car salesman living in Springdale, Massachusetts, who believes he is a private detective. His girlfriend, Friday, finds this charming, though she warns him not to get carried away. The local cops are becoming fed up with him. His sister and brother-in-law think he's unstable and too old for such fantasies. They want him locked up.
When Harry stumbles upon the case of a missing woman, he decides to investigate. However, the situation is far more complex-and more dangerous-than he imagines.
Turning to the authorities only makes things worse. Harry witnesses a murder, but no one believes him. With Harry and Friday on the run-hunted by the police, the killer, and even Harry's friends and relatives-their chances for survival look grim. But the man everyone believes is crazy may be the only one who can crack the case.
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Harry Dickinson, the hero of this choppy, underdeveloped novel from Black (The Extinction Event), goes through life behaving as if he were a 1940s gumshoe. He is also a latter-day Don Quixote, who sees the good and the mystery in everything and everyone, even though he's actually a present-day car salesman in Springdale, Mass. His girl Friday, Linda Chapin, is hopelessly in love with him, and his best friend, detective Brian Rossiter, overlooks Harry's less-than-firm grip on reality. Meanwhile, his sister, Carol, and her husband, Phil Lagrange, would love to see him institutionalized so they can control Harry's finances and the house they all share. When Harry finds bank documents left at a shoe-shine stand and insists they indicate that foul play has befallen a woman he has never met, things start to go Phil's way. Harry has some charm, but he tends to ramble on in bewildering fashion, while dialogue between minor characters reads more like screenplay notes than anything that moves the plot along.
