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Shadow Roll: A Sam Russo Mystery (2013)

by Ki Longfellow(Favorite Author)

4.04 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Eio Books

review 1: This is probably heresy, but I think Sam Russo is as good as Philip Marlowe. Don't hit me. Read this, the opening paragraph of the 3rd Sam Russo book, THE GIRL IN THE NEXT ROOM."I was calling on my new neighbor, the goober in room 4-C. 4-C was old Nate’s room before old Nate curled up his toes and died. When the new guy answered my knock, it was like watching a rock roll away from a hole. The rat inside was enormous. He had a glass of something brownin one hairy paw and a glass of something less brown in the other. I figured one of ‘em was a chaser.About then his smell came out and punched me right onthe nose.I stood there, Jane at my side, trying not to inhale. I said,“Hello. My name is Sam Russo.”“So?”“I live in 4-A.”“So?”“I wondered… have you s... moreeen Holly?”“Who?”“The girl in 4-B. That’s the room between us.”“Girl? Beat it bub, before I give you what for. Or her, if I did see ‘er.” With both hands full and a wet smoke stuck in his wet mouth, there wasn’t much he could do to keep his pants up. They were dungarees: old, encrusted with filth, and slowly sinking.I thanked a slammed door."You see what I mean?
review 2: Sam Russo, wannabe Private Eye, noir movie buff, pulp fiction reader, lover of horse flesh and horse racing, falls into a case of not one, but three murdered jockeys at his favorite race track in his very first real hard-boiled case. He's much too soft to be hard-boiled but he's trying. I love everything about him. It's 1948. He's still young, been through the war on the Pacific Front, seen a lot of terrible things in his life, but he'll never be bitter or hard-bitten. He's a funny sincere guy with a way about him you can't help but care about. I'm onto my next case. Hope this series just keeps going. He's got me right out of the gate. less

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