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She had been pretty, blond, barely out of her teens. Now Flap Tucker was staring up at her grotesquely disfigured face as her body dangled from a streetlight on the fringe of Atlanta's Piedmont Park, in the cold city dawn. Pinned to her lapel, a note -- Number One: The Tarantella. A dance of evil has commenced, a sinister medley of high art and base instinct that unfolds over time to its own murderous beat. There will be more bodies, as a ruthless killer leads Flap Tucker through the steps show more of a pattern only he can unravel.Flap's trick, his Zen-like ability to glimpse the truth behind the curtain, isn't working. The first victim, the cherished niece of the great Atlanta bassist Irgo Dane, leads to another -- the upstairs neighbor of Flap's best friend, Dalliance Oglethorpe -- this corpse marked Number Two: The Tango. Desperate to stop the killer before he can strike again, Flap probes deep into he heart of Atlanta's underworld, enlisting the aid of rival crime czars, the volatile Mickey The Pineapple Nichols and the urbane Foggy Moskowitz, and maintaining an uneasy alliance with the Atlanta police detective in charge of the case, who harbors more than a professional interest in Flap's relationship with Dally.As the killer picks up the tempo, circling ever closer to Dalliance herself, Flap struggles frantically to find his footing in he dark streets of a city where he has lost his way ... show lessTags
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Phillip DePoy is one of my favorite authors. I love the quirky characters, wry humor, literary allusions, and arcane knowledge that fill the pages of so many of his books. Who else would build a murder mystery using an art show, a Billie Holiday song, the CDC, and the death of Gerard de Nerval (translator of Faust) as elements?
When the body of a woman is found strung up on a lamp post, and the police initially call it a "suicide," P.I. Flap Tucker -- still mourning the death of his friend Jamie -- is on the case. Actually, he's on the case for Jamie's murder, too, since the police probably have the wrong man in custody. The case gets more bizarre as another body shows up.
This was a quick, easy read -- the murders ar a bit grim, but show more presented without too much grisly detail. Ultimately, the plot got a little convoluted -- it took a mini info dump at the end to tie up loose ends -- and one police detective's behavior didn't quite make sense, but I'm not going to quibble over it too much. These are not books to take too seriously -- Flap can be flip, and that's fine. If you'd like an offbeat and entertaining mystery, Southern style, give this series a try. show less
When the body of a woman is found strung up on a lamp post, and the police initially call it a "suicide," P.I. Flap Tucker -- still mourning the death of his friend Jamie -- is on the case. Actually, he's on the case for Jamie's murder, too, since the police probably have the wrong man in custody. The case gets more bizarre as another body shows up.
This was a quick, easy read -- the murders ar a bit grim, but show more presented without too much grisly detail. Ultimately, the plot got a little convoluted -- it took a mini info dump at the end to tie up loose ends -- and one police detective's behavior didn't quite make sense, but I'm not going to quibble over it too much. These are not books to take too seriously -- Flap can be flip, and that's fine. If you'd like an offbeat and entertaining mystery, Southern style, give this series a try. show less
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