Corpses Say the Darndest Things: A Nod Blake Mystery
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (566 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00GNJ3GEY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 496 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Considering the nature of the crimes, the combination shouldn't have worked but it did. "Tremendous imagery a solid who-done-it with a good twist in its tale. a terrific read - had me flicking pages, chuckling all the while, andpowering on to find out what was going to happen next." - Aussie Book Reviewer"I was quite taken with the book Lamoreux is a clever writer and quite funny. He manages to combine humor with a very grisly murder mystery in an engaging manner. I'd be happy to read more Nod Blake mysteries. I believe the author has found his genre." - J M McDole, Impact On-line
Blake believes dead people are talking to him. Thanks to his eager young secretary, private eye Nod Blake, an aging throwback to a bygone era of detecting on the mean streets, a dinosaur who never got the memo he was extinct, who sometimes thinks he's Bogart, George Raft, and Lee Marvin rolled into one, has been dumped in the middle of it all, on his head.The resulting injuries seem to have opened a door to the hereafter. It was a simple job: keep surveillance on the minister's wife until she went safely to bed. Are the victims really begging the last gumshoe for help from the other side of the grave? Or has he lost his friggin' mind? When his nemesis, Detective Lieutenant Wenders finds evidence that Blake is the murderer, the private dick's life becomes a great big soup sandwich.Corpses Say the Darndest Things is a murder mystery with a sly sense of humor, set in 1979 Chicago where a maniacal killer on the loose in The Windy City is the good news. Bestseller in Supernatural Mystery Bestseller in Hard-Boiled Mystery. Then all hell broke loose.The death of the wife of Chicago's most beloved televangelist is only the beginning: someone is homiciding their way through the congregation of the Temple of Majesty Church
I really enjoyed reading this well-written book Wow! A real live gumshoe solving a mystery that isn't of the paint-by-number variety. I really enjoyed reading this well-written bookand almost want to kick myself for saying so, but it would make a fantastic movie!. "This is MORE than a Murder Mystery" according to Barbara Rosenbalm. I seldom get to sit down and read a book. Took a chance on this one, and I am so glad I did. Doug Lamoreux has outdone himself with this story. Sure, it's touted as a murder mystery and Lamoreux has written other creepy horror stories. But in this one you follow all the clues and try to figure out who is the murderer, but you also chuckle and maybe even laugh out loud as Blake stumbles through the caper, spewing his dry wit. I love Nod Blake and hope Lamoreux follows up with more adventures. He certainly has built a foundat. Surveillance (aka babysitting) is not just play! PATTI C. LAMOREUX Not only did the cover of the book intrigue my interest, but the line stating, "It was a simple job" reached out and grabbed me. (I know about babysitting and it's not always simple)! And who would climb a tree while hired as a babysitter?Detective Blake didn't want to do it, but his right-hand gal had already committed him to the job and how could he refuse? What could be so difficult about that anyway? What starts as a simple job turns into a roller coaster murder event.Throughout the book Detective Blake has to justify h
All interspersed with forty years in theater (during which he fell off the stage twice). Now he writes swell horror novels. He starred in Peter O'Keefe's Infidel and Boris Wexler's The Arab. . The last, quite possibly the least, Renaissance man, Doug Lamoreux (a father of three strong men and a grandfather), a lifelong horror film fan and child of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine,