The 5th novel in the internationally published Vincent Calvino series finds a beautiful American blond dead with a large bullet hole in her head. Police to discover the body in the house of her ex-boyfriend. A famous Hollywood screen-writer hires Calvino to investigate her death. Everyone except Calvino's client believes Samantha McNeal has committed suicide.
"If you have read the majority of classic crime writers chances are you will stumble late upon Moore's SE Asian works. You have saved the best "character" novelist till last! Often likened to Hammett, Chandler et al, he is in fact a far superior writer than these. Prepare yourself then, when reading The Big Weird, for the minor characters taking over the book and your life for a time. With Dickensian deftness, Moore carves Osborn the dillettante, Pauline the Chino-fascist, and Quentin the Hollywood script legend out of an atmosphere of pervasive sickness."
"They will linger with you like strange statues from a Buddhist temple."
Genre: Mystery
"If you have read the majority of classic crime writers chances are you will stumble late upon Moore's SE Asian works. You have saved the best "character" novelist till last! Often likened to Hammett, Chandler et al, he is in fact a far superior writer than these. Prepare yourself then, when reading The Big Weird, for the minor characters taking over the book and your life for a time. With Dickensian deftness, Moore carves Osborn the dillettante, Pauline the Chino-fascist, and Quentin the Hollywood script legend out of an atmosphere of pervasive sickness."
"They will linger with you like strange statues from a Buddhist temple."
Genre: Mystery
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