Richard Lipez (–2022)
Author of Death Trick
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- Date of death
- 2022-03-16
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Third Man Out (Donald Strachey, #4)
Good book.
This was a highly enjoyable read.
A newspaper on the brink of extinction and a family at war with itself. Don Strachey's got his hands full, but when Timmy Callahan gets caught in the cross fire, he's not a happy man.
In the end I enjoyed this story, but it felt a bit thin and a rare thing for me, I actually sussed out the culprit at about the same time Don did.
In the end I enjoyed this story, but it felt a bit thin and a rare thing for me, I actually sussed out the culprit at about the same time Don did.
Highly enjoyable and very funny. Huntingdon "Hunny" Van Horn and his family are a fun, if crude, bunch to encounter. Hunny and his honey, Art, are a fun loving and living couple who win a billion dollars in a lottery drawing and immediately become beset by people, problems, old grudges and blackmail coming out of the woodwork. Desperate for help, Hunny calls on Donald Stratchey for help with the attempts at blackmail and the action just gets more outrageous, and funny, from there.
I was particularly amused by the thinly disguised 'Bill O'Malley' and 'Focks News'. Stevenson got the snide-ness, baiting, mocking, "moral" outrage and you-name-it down to a "t".… (more)
I was particularly amused by the thinly disguised 'Bill O'Malley' and 'Focks News'. Stevenson got the snide-ness, baiting, mocking, "moral" outrage and you-name-it down to a "t".… (more)
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