The Devil and the Detective, John Goldbach
The Devil and the Detective, John Goldbach
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The Devil and the Detective

Author: John Goldbach

Narrator: L.J. Ganser

Unabridged: 3 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/06/2014

Categories: Fiction, Humorous


Synopsis

"Goldbach's touch is light and his narrative momentum is fierce."-- The Globe and Mail Robert James, a private detective more interested in chronicling his cases than solving them, gets a midnight call from a young woman whose older husband has been found with a knife in his chest. Murder, corruption, and betrayal ensue as he's drawn into the dark underworld of his client, but hapless Robert and his sidekick, a flower-delivery guy, can't stop drinking, smoking, and philosophizing long enough to keep up. Imagine The Big Sleep via Fernando Pessoa, with a side of Buster Keaton. John Goldbach is the author of Selected Blackouts, a collection of stories.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John

I can't recall when I was so much in two minds about a book. We start off in territory somewhere that's between Raymond Chandler and Ed McBain in terms of both content and writing style. Bob James, a somewhat ineffective Montreal PI, is called in by the beautiful -- and probably bad -- Elaine, widow......more

Goodreads review by John

Three and a half stars, anyway. Weird little detective story -- revolves around the idea that the detective knows basically nothing, and most of the book is his trying to cope with the fact that he knows nothing. Not only does he not have any real information, he has misinformation, he is lied to, a......more

Goodreads review by Michael

A great satire noir novel.......more