Mr. Swirlee

It's sort of semi-hard-boiled fiction. Devlin Haskel is a PI, who is not very good at his craft, and who is amazingly impetuous. He leaps into situations that are inherently a bad idea and ignores things that are obviously problems until such time as they bite him in the butt. Reading this reminds me of watching those old B&W "mystery/horror" movies from the 1940s where you keep screaming at the actor not to open that door...or whatever, but he does it anyway, and doesn't profit from the doing. This book involved some skullduggery out of ice cream trucks in their after hours.

I dunno, it was vaguely interesting, but certainly not all that great. I might read another in the series, but I'd be better off reading old cowboy books by B. M. show more Bower if I just want to idle away a few hours. This would be 3*- were GoodReads to allow such things. Note 3*- is better than 2* . show less