Harry Lipkin, Private Eye
Hardcover, 224 pg
Doubleday, 2012
Read: July 27, 2012
This book was quite the change of pace, a very “cozy” mystery feel with a teeny-tiny touch of hard-boiled flavoring. An odd PI with an offbeat approach to things, along the lines of Paul Tremblay‘s Narcoleptic Detective or Rick Yancey‘s Highly Effective Detective. Lipkin’s an amusing enough character and the robbery suspects he’s investigating are fairly interesting, but the mystery’s pretty flat and the novel doesn’t have a lot going for it.
In the end, it was a nice enough diversion for a couple of hours, but that’s basically it.
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