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Crag Banyon Mystery #3
Royal Flush
TURN THAT CROWN UPSIDE-DOWN...
When Banyon takes an easy gig bodyguarding the visiting Queen of Albion, he figures for the first time in his career he's finally got it made. A little quick cash for an afternoon's work. What can go wrong?
When you're Crag Banyon, don't ask.
No sooner does he take the job than someone tries to kill Her Royal Handbag. No sooner does he save her than someone tries to kill him. No sooner does he say to hell with it and escapes to his favorite bar than the local temperance league shuts it down. Banyon's having the worst day of his life, and that's before a rival P.I. commits a very public suicide that somehow links back to Banyon Investigations, Inc.
When Banyon takes an easy gig bodyguarding the visiting Queen of Albion, he figures for the first time in his career he's finally got it made. A little quick cash for an afternoon's work. What can go wrong?
When you're Crag Banyon, don't ask.
No sooner does he take the job than someone tries to kill Her Royal Handbag. No sooner does he save her than someone tries to kill him. No sooner does he say to hell with it and escapes to his favorite bar than the local temperance league shuts it down. Banyon's having the worst day of his life, and that's before a rival P.I. commits a very public suicide that somehow links back to Banyon Investigations, Inc.
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First published January 11, 2013
About the author
James Mullaney
81 books17 followersI'm the ghostwriter, author or co-author of 26 novels, including the "New" Destroyers Guardian Angel, Choke Hold. Dead Reckoning and Killer Ratings. I've written for Marvel Comics, co-authored The Destroyer series guide The Assassin's Handbook 2 and I have a short story in the upcoming Green Hornet Casefiles anthology.
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January 18, 2013
Crag Banyon appears in a third mystery with ROYAL FLUSH. The series is a mash-up of crime noir/urban fantasy. With a dash of humor tossed in.
Crag Banyon is your typical private eye. Money's always short, he has a dimwit, sort of, secretary, a cop who hates him, and he drinks a lot. He also has an assistant, an elf named Mannix, and some of the weirdest clients going.
He gets visited by a client who at first glance is eight feet tall. A second loook shows the pointed hat, with stars and a crescent moon, takes up a quarter of that. He introduces himself as Merlin, "Call me Merle," and wants to hire Banyon for a bodyguard job. Not his usual thing, But Banyon rarely turns down a paying gig.
The Queen of the island nation of Albion is visiting and he wants a civilian presence among the horde of police security. He's paid with a large ruby for an afternoon's work. The queen has rued since 1798.
Of course things go downhill from there.
Someone tries to kill the queen, Banyon catches someone following him later and when that is revealed, the person, a hooded figure, begins casually tossing SUVs at our hero. When he wants to wash his hands of the whole business, the ruby has a curse that haves his fee each day until he protects the royal family. When the fee has been reduced to almost nothing, the curse begins working on his life.
No choice for Banyon.
This latest entry from James Mullaney, one of my favorite writers, is full of small touches such as a reference to Bewitched, mention of an old case involving a bear protecting his cave from a blond intruder who eas the family's porridge, sleeps in their beds, and gets blown away by shotgun, the bear and his family backed by the NRA.
So much more in this fine series.
Crag Banyon is your typical private eye. Money's always short, he has a dimwit, sort of, secretary, a cop who hates him, and he drinks a lot. He also has an assistant, an elf named Mannix, and some of the weirdest clients going.
He gets visited by a client who at first glance is eight feet tall. A second loook shows the pointed hat, with stars and a crescent moon, takes up a quarter of that. He introduces himself as Merlin, "Call me Merle," and wants to hire Banyon for a bodyguard job. Not his usual thing, But Banyon rarely turns down a paying gig.
The Queen of the island nation of Albion is visiting and he wants a civilian presence among the horde of police security. He's paid with a large ruby for an afternoon's work. The queen has rued since 1798.
Of course things go downhill from there.
Someone tries to kill the queen, Banyon catches someone following him later and when that is revealed, the person, a hooded figure, begins casually tossing SUVs at our hero. When he wants to wash his hands of the whole business, the ruby has a curse that haves his fee each day until he protects the royal family. When the fee has been reduced to almost nothing, the curse begins working on his life.
No choice for Banyon.
This latest entry from James Mullaney, one of my favorite writers, is full of small touches such as a reference to Bewitched, mention of an old case involving a bear protecting his cave from a blond intruder who eas the family's porridge, sleeps in their beds, and gets blown away by shotgun, the bear and his family backed by the NRA.
So much more in this fine series.
March 3, 2017
In what has to be the best Banyon yet our antihero alcoholic PI gets a case he doesn't want and ends up suckered into a web of intrigue so thick not even Drano could cut through it. Luckily Banyon can and does. Once again Jim Mullaney delivers a solid dose of two fisted booze soaked adventure set in a world that is both surreal and familiar at the same time.
January 27, 2013
Third entry in the Crag Banyon Mysteries. Another great read,funny and sharp, entertaining characters and great action. Vivat Rex Chompy and Vivat Crag Banyon!
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