Diamond and the Eye, Peter Lovesey
Diamond and the Eye, Peter Lovesey
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Diamond and the Eye

Author: Peter Lovesey

Narrator: James Langton

Unabridged: 9 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/19/2021


Synopsis

Bath police detective Peter Diamond suffers no fools. Now his nightmare has come to pass: he has to collaborate with the most preposterous kind of fool he can imagine. The self-styled Johnny Getz (his business card proclaims he “Getz
Results!”) is a private investigator who has been hired to track down Septimus “Seppy” Hubbard, a missing antiques dealer whose case Diamond has been assigned by the Avon and Somerset Murder Squad. Johnny Getz is a Philip
Marlowe wannabe, complete with ridiculous private eye duds and a frustratingly high (and inaccurate) opinion of his detection skills. But is Getz’s real job to find a missing victim or to stymie Diamond’s progress?

In this celebration of the mystery genre’s greatest practitioners and most outrageous heroes, Peter Lovesey delivers another perfect Golden Age–style puzzle mystery, rippling with unforgettable one-liners and slapstick adventure,
and sparkling with brilliantly drawn secondary characters.

About Peter Lovesey

Peter Lovesey is the author of the Peter Diamond mysteries, the Sergeant Cribb mysteries, and the Bertie, Prince of Wales novels. He was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger, Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere, the Anthony, and the Ellery Queen Readers' Award, and is Grand Master of the Swedish Academy of Detection. He has been a full-time author since 1975, and was formerly in higher education. Peter currently lives in Chichester, England.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathy on October 31, 2021

4.5 stars for me This was a delightful departure from the norm with a wonderful tribute to the literary tradition of PIs. Most (if not all) authors of PI stories were given the nod in this creative, lively story that had a good measure of mystery, secrets to uncover and a surfeit of shootings for the......more

Goodreads review by Paul on October 31, 2021

This review contains very light spoilers. If you've read any of my previous reviews of Peter Lovesey's novels, you know that he is at the top of my personal list of favorite authors. His mysteries are complex, authentic, and sharply humorous. I enjoy the main recurring characters, notably the brillia......more

Goodreads review by Eyejaybee on August 02, 2021

Over the years Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond, head of CID in Bath, has become one of my favourite fictional coppers. Frequently impulsive and often bad tempered, he is an essentially empathetic character, struggling to curb his frustrations at the relentless stream of new management initiat......more

Goodreads review by Henry on October 26, 2021

One good thing about this book is that there's a bit more police procedure than in the previous two in the series. The story starts with Diamond being accosted by a traditional American type private investigator over a missing person case. As the case gets more complicated, the novel switches into a......more

Goodreads review by TheRavenking on June 01, 2022

After the somewhat lacklustre "The Finisher" this was a welcome return to form for Lovesey and his series character Peter Diamond. This time part of the story is told in first person narration by a private eye who is a fan of classic P.I.-s and keeps referencing people like Lew Archer or Travis McGe......more