Nobody seems to want Zach to stay around, except for a beautiful blonde named Enid Murphy, so he's pretty sure he's right about the murder. Naturally he does some amateur sleuthing, which puts him and his daughter in danger.
This novel, from 1957, is very short, only 116 pages, and that's one of the problems with it. The relationship between Zach and Enid doesn't have time to develop. It just happens, and it's hard to believe. Other characters don't have any time to develop, and nothing is done with Zach's line of work. He might just as well have been a baseball player or a grocery clerk. But I'm not complaining, really. The story zips along, and the writing is sharp, and Marsten gives us a photo of a time and a place that's hard to beat. And it sure won't take you long to read it.
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Funny, but I have no memory of this one at all even though my database shows that I read it in 1977. I do remember "Marsten"'s MURDER IN THE NAVY (DEATH OF A NURSE).
Oh well.
Jeff
I read this many moons ago. As you say, Evan Hunter could write good books under any of his many names. And he didn't need 300 or 400 pages to do it.
I don't have a database. I wish I did. But I probably reviewed this one in the apa back in the '70s.
Without a database you have to rely on your crack memory, right?
This is why we needed that apa index.
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Jeff
Well, as I've mantioned in various fora, I usually find something important about any Hunter fiction hard to believe...glad to see that in at least some cases it isn't just mue.
The mystery here is why this book is in the Crider library. The cover is skin-free!
Nice blonde with dark eyebrows, though.
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