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Buck Monday

J. Craig

出版	James D. Craig, 2012-06-21
主題	Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
ISBN	06156371249780615637129
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-DyNMAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

It is the mid-sixties, that time of relative sanity before the Age of Aquarius, hippies, yuppies and groupies. The Cold War was still cold and Viet Nam was just beginning. In a story reminiscent of detective novels of the forties and fifties, the investigation into a small warehouse theft escalates to an amazing extent. Buck, in his usual off-beat manner, wrestles with the murder of a friend, cross-border intrigue, entanglements with the mob and the murky maze of the Federal Government. The results are surprising even to the unflappable beach city detective. Ocean Beach, a suburb of San Diego, is the setting in which Buck Monday and a host of characters, ranging from Herbie, the ex-marine, Agnes Ames, the bewitching love interest and San Diego P.D. Detective T. M. Roberts provide pieces to the jig-saw puzzle of clues. Adding seasoning to the story are Buck's land-lady Mrs. Bagley, Ambrose the cat, Sammy the bum and the patrons of Herbie's Diner. In the Mulligan stew that is Buck Monday, the novel, each chapter and each character provides an ingredient toward the final stock; a gun battle with resounding implications!