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Crag Banyon Mystery #5
Bum Luck
BANYON INVESTIGATIONS, INC. CASES CRACKED. REASONABLE RATES.When a desperate leprechaun needs to locate his lost pot of gold, there's only one P.I. in town dogged and sober enough to take the case. Unfortunately, his first choice is in Bimini dodging an IRS audit, so he calls on Crag Banyon instead.That's just the start of a string of increasingly lousy luck that hounds Banyon from one emerald end of his latest crummy job to the other, where it turns out that a trip over the rainbow isn't the fun-and-booze-filled romp that all the brochures claim. Banyon finds that the whole leprechaun world is upside-down, while at the same time our own world is suffering through a mealtime catastrophe that's threatening side dishes from here to Thanksgiving and beyond.Toss in a femme fatale more fatale than usual, along with a sexy dame reporter who's so untrustworthy even her curves are crooked, and Banyon finds that he's up to his pretty little eyeballs in more trouble than one plucky, partially plastered P.I can handle. Not without doubling his rates and/or tripling his booze consumption.UNLUCKIEST P.I. IN THE GREATER METROPOLITAN YELLOW PAGES
224 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 19, 2014
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James Mullaney
83 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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September 1, 2014
Any time I set down to read one of James Mullaney's books, I know I'm going to have a kick-ass time. The man knows humor and how to put it into a narrative while keeping things moving. You just know Mullaney is enjoying the writing as much as you are loving reading it.
Crag Banyon is your typical P.I. Sort of. He deals with all sorts of odd creatures and cases, has an office assistant, an elf named Mannix, and a secretary, Doris Starburton every bit as flighty as one could imagine. He likes to drink. A quote from the book:
"The clear, vodka-looking liquid had the hideous indecency to be water, and I quickly spit it out before my taste buds got the legal department at Seagram’s to sue me for alienation of affection."
His client this time around is the ex-wife. Another quote from the book:
"Ex-Mrs. Banyon was not technically the bride from Hell. She did, however, enjoy a timeshare condo there two weeks a year on a stretch of burning beachfront on a lovely lava lake."
She's there with her fiance, a leprechaun named Finnegan O'Fart whose pot of gold had been stolen. without which they can't be married. Which would release Banyon from fifteen years of alimony servitude.
Taking the case loosed the hounds of bad luck on our hero, everything from black cats to ladders swinging over his head to falling safes and runaway dumpsters. Things only get worse when Banyon rides a rainbow into Leprechaun Land and finds out about Big Green and the real story.
onderful story full of laughs and action.
Highly recommended.
Crag Banyon is your typical P.I. Sort of. He deals with all sorts of odd creatures and cases, has an office assistant, an elf named Mannix, and a secretary, Doris Starburton every bit as flighty as one could imagine. He likes to drink. A quote from the book:
"The clear, vodka-looking liquid had the hideous indecency to be water, and I quickly spit it out before my taste buds got the legal department at Seagram’s to sue me for alienation of affection."
His client this time around is the ex-wife. Another quote from the book:
"Ex-Mrs. Banyon was not technically the bride from Hell. She did, however, enjoy a timeshare condo there two weeks a year on a stretch of burning beachfront on a lovely lava lake."
She's there with her fiance, a leprechaun named Finnegan O'Fart whose pot of gold had been stolen. without which they can't be married. Which would release Banyon from fifteen years of alimony servitude.
Taking the case loosed the hounds of bad luck on our hero, everything from black cats to ladders swinging over his head to falling safes and runaway dumpsters. Things only get worse when Banyon rides a rainbow into Leprechaun Land and finds out about Big Green and the real story.
onderful story full of laughs and action.
Highly recommended.
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