Bodies Are Where You Find Them The Mike Shayne Mysteries Book 5 edition by Brett Halliday Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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A disappearing corpse draws Mike Shayne into political guerilla warfare
A year after marrying the toughest PI in Miami, Phyllis Shayne longs for a few weeks alone with her husband. She and Mike are about to board a train to New York when a client shows up at the door. Her face gray and her voice slurred, the mysterious woman passes out before she’s able to get through her story. Mike carries the stranger to his spare bedroom and, trying to save his wife from worry, tells Phyllis to go on to the train station without him; he’ll meet her in a few days. When he goes back to check on the woman, she is dead, with one of her stockings wrapped tightly around her throat. Something is fishy, but it’s about to get far more complicated when the body disappears.
The woman arrived just after Mike took a call from Sam Marsh, a close friend who’s in a mayoral race that’s about to turn bloody. To save his friend’s campaign and keep himself out of jail, Mike will have to find the killer—but he’ll have to find the body first.
Bodies Are Where You Find Them is the 5th book in the Mike Shayne Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
A year after marrying the toughest PI in Miami, Phyllis Shayne longs for a few weeks alone with her husband. She and Mike are about to board a train to New York when a client shows up at the door. Her face gray and her voice slurred, the mysterious woman passes out before she’s able to get through her story. Mike carries the stranger to his spare bedroom and, trying to save his wife from worry, tells Phyllis to go on to the train station without him; he’ll meet her in a few days. When he goes back to check on the woman, she is dead, with one of her stockings wrapped tightly around her throat. Something is fishy, but it’s about to get far more complicated when the body disappears.
The woman arrived just after Mike took a call from Sam Marsh, a close friend who’s in a mayoral race that’s about to turn bloody. To save his friend’s campaign and keep himself out of jail, Mike will have to find the killer—but he’ll have to find the body first.
Bodies Are Where You Find Them is the 5th book in the Mike Shayne Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Bodies Are Where You Find Them The Mike Shayne Mysteries Book 5 edition by Brett Halliday Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
I ordered this book to find out for myself how much Shane Black's delightful film really owed to the book it was "Based in Part" upon. Well ... it's a very small part -- just the central nugget of the plot, actually -- which I won't spoil here. Everything I loved about the film, the characters, the pace and tone, the unique style, was pure Shane Black. The book is fun ... but somehow not as fun as I imagine "You'll Never Die in This Town Again" or any of the movie's other Jonny Gossamer pulp novels would be. I almost never say this ... but, skip the book and see the movie.Product details
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Bodies Are Where You Find Them The Mike Shayne Mysteries Book 5 edition by Brett Halliday Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
I read this book because it is listed as being the source material for the great film Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Apart from one element of the crime(s), they have nothing in common.
This is a story about a hard-boiled noir detective who gets himself wrapped up in a murder mystery. Sound familiar? It’s a fun, light, quick read, but offers nothing new or inventive to the genre. If you’ve read the complete works of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Elmore Leonard, and - why not? - let’s throw Agatha Christie in there, this might be a fine read. Otherwise, there are definitely other works that are more worth your time.
Bodies Are Where You Find Them is the fifth Mike Shayne novel and was definitely written by David Dresser before Brett Halliday became a house name for the writers that followed. Being one of the early novels, it even has a very brief appearance by Shayne's wife, Phyllis, brief enough for Shayne to see her off to the train station. Obviously it was decided that keeping her out of the limelight made Shayne a more interesting and more eligible detective.
Even if you've read dozens of pulp mysteries, you'll still enjoy this one. It features big redheaded Mike Shayne at his finest, accused of murder by Peter Painter, hiding sexy young doped up women from his wife, carting corpses around, getting in fistfights with bouncers, avoiding road blockades, breaking into sanitariums, and concocting wild explanations for everything that is going on. Right from the start this book is filled with nonstop action that simply never lets up right up until Shayne gathers all the suspects in the parlor and pulls his big reveal. There's a reason that this series continued literally for decades.
I ordered this book to find out for myself how much Shane Black's delightful film really owed to the book it was "Based in Part" upon. Well ... it's a very small part -- just the central nugget of the plot, actually -- which I won't spoil here. Everything I loved about the film, the characters, the pace and tone, the unique style, was pure Shane Black. The book is fun ... but somehow not as fun as I imagine "You'll Never Die in This Town Again" or any of the movie's other Jonny Gossamer pulp novels would be. I almost never say this ... but, skip the book and see the movie.
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