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Title: Blue Moon: A Philip Damon Mystery by Peter Duchin, John Morgan Wilson ISBN: 0-425-18645-8 Publisher: Prime Crime Pub. Date: October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Highly unrealistic nostalgic fun
Comment: Ah yes, this is full of nostalgia, maybe almost but not quite to the point of irritation.
Philip Damon, bearing a strong resemblance to band leader/co-author Peter Duchin, plays amateur detective when a man accompanying a woman who is remarkably similar in appearance to Damon's murdered wife is himself murdered. Hobnobbing with practically every celebrity who was prominent in 1963, he investigates the murder much to the consternation of black San Francisco Police Inspector Hercules Platt who is having his own problem convincing his superiors and those he deals with that he is a very capable inspector.
This is a light-hearted portrayal of the early '60's alluding to the social changes going on at the time including racial issues, growing drug use, rock & roll replacing swing era music, and acceptance of gays, as well as providing us with an old-fashioned type of mystery featuring the amateur sleuth.
Rating: 5
Summary: buy it. buy it now.
Comment: Great book. Well-written, humorous, well-plotted. I look forward to more books in what could be a well-done series. I'm a big fan of John Morgan Wilson's Justice series and while this is not as dark as those can be, it is well worth the read.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best I've read
Comment: Blue Moon is one of those rare pieces I read in one sitting. The authors craft a story with good pace (the celluloid runs through your mind during the car chase to the Golden Gate Bridge) Having been interested in the Duchin story for years, the authors play with Peter Duchin's personal history and use it to wonderful effect. Just as Philip Damon prefers of his music, the book "swings".
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Title: Blind Eye: A Benjamin Justice Novel by John Morgan Wilson ISBN: 0312309198 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Good Morning, Heartache: A Philip Damon Mystery by Peter Duchin, John Morgan Wilson ISBN: 042519180X Publisher: Prime Crime Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Dead Egotistical Morons: A Paul Turner Mystery by Mark Richard Zubro, Mark Zubro ISBN: 0312266820 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 02 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Bar Watcher by Dorien Grey ISBN: 1879194791 Publisher: GLB Publishers Pub. Date: 27 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Bottle Ghosts by Dorien Grey ISBN: 1879194732 Publisher: GLB Publishers Pub. Date: 10 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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