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Loading... Fletch (1974)by Gregory Mcdonald
None.  randoymwords | Sep 27, 2011 |  investigative reporter, drugs, murder, mystery (  ) ssomme | Aug 21, 2009 | The movie is MUCH better than this book. MUCH! (  ) beebowallace | Dec 16, 2008 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0375713549, Paperback)FletchHe’s an investigative reporter whose methods are a little unorthodox. Currently he’s living on the beach with the strung-out trying to find to the source of the drugs they live for. Fletch He’s taking more than a little flack from his editor. She doesn’t appreciate his style. Or the expense account items he’s racking up. Or his definition of the word deadline. Or the divorce lawyers who keep showing up at the office. Fletch So when multimillionaire Alan Stanwyk offers Fletch the job of a lifetime, which could be worth a fortune, he’s intrigued and decides to do a little investigation. What he discovers is that the proposition is anything but what it seems. (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:33:57 -0500) When a wealthy California industrialist tells apparent beach bum I.M. Fletcher that he wants to be murdered, the undercover journalist investigates the businessman's private life. |
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It's a 1970s California, but the hero's quips and intellectual jousting would be well at home in Dashiell Hammett's 1930s. And of course there is still police corruption and beautiful rich women are still seducing the tarnished hero. The difference is, that Fletch can wrangle more enjoyment out of life than his predecessors, and may even find a way out of Hotel California... (