Moody Gets the Blues - Hardcover

Steve Oliver

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0964413876 ISBN 13: 9780964413870

Publisher: Offbyone Pr, 1996

Synopsis

Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Seattle:: Off By One Press., (1996.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The author's very highly praised first book, featuring one of the most off-center detectives of modern times: "Scott Moody has a few problems. HeÕs fresh out of a mental hospital. His wife has left him. He drives a taxi and occupies a dumpy apartment. He lives in the obscure inland city of Spokane, Washington and takes frequent doses of Thorazine. He became a private investigator after hallucinations about Humphrey Bogart. Now heÕs involved with the police who donÕt think it was a good idea. .....a compelling, humorous mystery and also a portrait of the pathology of madness. Illustrations by the author. INSCRIBED TWICE on the title page "with best wishes" and "thanks for the help" and dated in the year of publication. 236 pp.

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This first novel about a PI who is just out of a mental hospital and driving a taxi in Spokane, Wash., in 1978 has a few interestingly mordant moments, but they don't add up to much more than a decided oddity. "As I entered my apartment I almost knocked over Irving. He's a philodendron who resides on the table by the front window. He passed away two months ago when I was first out of the hospital and not doing too well at taking care of other living things." So says Scott Moody early on, setting a coy tone that rapidly begins to grate. "It's 1978, after all, and things are strange for everyone," he says on the same page?the first of literally dozens of times the date is mentioned. Moody, we soon learn, applied for his PI license while he was in the hospital, after having a hallucinatory chat with Humphrey Bogart. The case which keeps him busy?when he's not pushing his cab around Spokane's seedier streets or fighting off the many women who seem to find him fascinating?involves the missing husband of a temptress who was Moody's high-school flame. But the author, a Seattle-based former journalist and computer programmer, succeeds neither in creating a compelling story line nor in convincing us to believe in Moody or his setting.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Offbyone Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0964413876
• ISBN 13: 9780964413870
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236