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Dead Game (1954)

de Michael Avallone

Sèrie: Ed Noon (03)

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Ed Noon is a typical pulp era private eye operating out an office so small he called it the mouse auditorium. In later novels in the series, he actually moves to a more normal sized office and hires a secretary, Melissa. But he's still the same wisecracking Joe. In still later novels in the series, he becomes a super spy and meets space aliens. But in this book, he's still the original swashbuckling PI.

The story begins with a shadowing job for a suspicious wife. Noon tells the reader that the wife gave a great description: "He was as big and as wide as Broadway with a nose like the pistol grip of an old Western shooting iron. His mustache was early Wild West too. Except for his dark olive look, he could pass easily for a reincarnation of Buffalo Bill." Ed Noon books are filled with such wild and colorful descriptions.

Noon follows the husband right to the Polo Grounds where the New York Giants played ball in the fifties before they headed west to the Golden Gate. "For a guy whose wife suspected him of horsing around, he was behaving pretty funny," Noon explains. A ball player is murdered leaving the field and it's the husband Noon had been following who gets to the body first, either killing him or searching him. But before that happens, Noon takes the reader through the play by play of the game. Yup, Avallone is a baseball fan. No doubt about it.

When the call goes in to headquarters, Captain Monks can't believe its Noon again with another homicide. It's a talent he has, a rare talent. Monks isn't laughing much later as dead officers and dead ball players start to add up and Noon is getting "outfoxed by a little dame." Noon "wasn't making any more headway than a revivalist at an orgy."

Noon returns to his office and finds a cyclone has ripped through it and "standing in the center of the mess, as unconcerned as Sergeant York in. Turkey-shooting match, was the skinniest, sexiest brunette I've ever laid my private eyes on," Noon explains.

It's a well written and compelling story mixing hardboiled mystery and baseball and filled with a liberal dose of Noonish humor. Terrific stuff! ( )
  DaveWilde | Sep 22, 2017 |
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