One For My Baby

by Alvah Cecil Bessie

250 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

Reviews

[Christopher Newton · Rating 2 out of 5]

So old school - set in a late 1950s North Beach San Francisco nightclub, the book wanders through the psyches of the staff and performers, mostly men, all Philip Marlowe style hardboiled losers, the men are mostly bullshitters with empty dreams, the women lost Marilyn Monroe types with hearts of gold. The men view the women as juicy pieces, the women walk around with broken hearts in their whiskey sours. A de rigueur murder to bump up sensational ending but the story, such as it is, wanders around like this review and never ends up anywhere I want to be. Interesting primarily as a contemporary picture of a long gone worlds.