When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books..
Is it worth your time? If you like those snappy, pre-code era mysteries where everyone talks like they’re trying to win a prize for the most insults per minute, you’ll probably have a decent time. If you need logic, or if you get annoyed when characters act like total idiots just to keep the plot moving, skip this. It’...
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Edwin L. Marin
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"Is it worth your time? If you like those snappy, pre-code era mysteries where everyone talks like they’re trying to win a prize for the most insults per minute, you’ll probably have a decent time. If you need logic, or if you get annoyed when characters act like total idiots just to keep the plot moving, skip this. It’s a very 1930s kind of mess, and I mean that with love. The whole thing hinges on a dead writer who was, by all accounts, a real jerk. He wrote about his affairs, and now he's dea..."
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