A Hearse is a Hearse...
Written: Feb 22 '02
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Pros: Pages turn like flapjacks at IHOP. Great twists--both of phrase and in plot.
Cons: They're not free.
The Bottom Line: If it won't break up your marriage or anger your cellmate, GET IT!
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| wooleyed's Full Review: Tim Cockey - Hearse of a Different Color |
Look out Kinky Friedman! Raymond Chandler may as well roll over and play dead (oops!). Readers have been beset too long by a multitude of colorless lawyers or child proctologists on missions of mercy. If it weren't for the intrusion of my daily meds and the necessity of pursuing the almighty dollar, this would have been a one-sitting book. It's prose and cons like that and those found within this book that makes me glad to be a reader of detective novels.
Mr Cockney make a womanizing, besotted caretaker for corpses into a most likable gent, with a sense of fairplay and the ability to relish some play that could be considered foul. Imagine Bill Murray with class, or William Conrad with a decade at the fat farm and an infusion of personality. Only thing better than reading this book would, perhaps, be writing it. Living the part would be out of the question. My liver couldn't take it. And, who would have thought that the actual murder was .....
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