Losers Live Longer by Russell Atwood
(Mass Market Paperback)
- Pub. Date: August 2009
- 256pp
- Sales Rank: 432,156
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Imperfect yet likeableby chucklake
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Peyton Sherwood slips out of the investigative loop from time to time yet manages to land on his feet. Impefect yet likeable.
I hope Russell Atwood is able to put one of these on the shelves every year.Hard Case Crime does it againby VonBrautIII
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another excellent book in the Hard Case Crime series. Charles Ardai, the general editor, goes back and coaxes relative unknowns with past noir or hard-boiled novels to do one for his series. In this case, Russell Atwood, who wrote East of A, ressurects his East Village P.I. and a few other characters plus some new ones, and at the same time gives a good picture of the "developments" in Alphabet...
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Losers Live Longer
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- Pub. Date: August 2009
- Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Company, Inc.
- Format: Mass Market Paperback, 256pp
- Sales Rank: 432,156
- ISBN-13: 9780843961218
- ISBN: 084396121X
Publishers Weekly
Atwood brings back droopy detective Payton Sherwood, familiar from 1999's East of A, in this modernized crime tale. Sherwood is the titular loser: “Two-thirds of the year gone by and I'd only had four paying clients.” Then retired PI George Rowell phones with a job. When Rowell is run down and killed in the street in front of Sherwood's office, Sherwood rifles the old man's pockets, comes up with several unrelated bits of paper and takes off before the cops come. Despite the death of his client, Sherwood begins to unravel a rat's nest of mysteries, with bad guys beating the snot out of him several times along the way. References to Craigslist and eBay jar slightly with the otherwise straightforwardly old-fashioned tale of a PI who cares moreabout honor and truth than money. (Sept.)
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