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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
Perfectly acceptable crime from Westlake. Not brilliant, but a good afternoon. Body, body, who's got the body? Had to read the ending twice. Ahhhhh, that was pretty awesome, I get it...
This is one of the better Westlakes I've read in recent years. High on the comic caper energy, this is an excellent mob murder mystery, and I enjoyed every page of it.
Aaaaaah, just what I needed. Outrageous. Funny. Engrossing. Surprising. I don't know, could anybody be more reliable than Westlake? Is it possible?
Another delightful Westlake story blending humor and bad guys together in a frolic of inappropriate assumptions and cross-purposes. This was a wonderful listen as a well-respected member of the local mob organization is asked to dig up a body to retrieve a suit the dead mobster has been buried in; it contained a lot of heroin sewn into the lining. Problem is the coffin is empty and he gets accused of selling out his boss. Soon he's running from everyone including a Deputy Inspector Callahan, a determinedly honest cop. It's a romp.
A lot of the other reviewers covered the book well. The only things I would add is how amazingly Westlake makes implausible situations seem reasonable and how little he relies on the gruesomeness of violence. I like the methodological aspect of crime solving but not all the gore. This book delivers on both accounts.
An early Westlake, but all the caper elements slot together nicely. A young mobster gets sent to dig up a dead body and recover the diamonds buried with it. But the body is missing, and he ends up on the run from the mob and the police simultaneously.