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McCoy
Based on the television pilot episode of McCoy, entilted "THe Big Ripoff" Written by Roland Kibbee and Dean Hargrove
160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published January 1, 1976
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June 29, 2022
A novelization of the first episode of a short-lived TV series starring Tony Curtis. Curtis plays the title character, a gambler/con artist who is often low on funds or in debt. This time, he owed 30 grand after an unlucky night at poker.
His usual method of dealing with debt is to find a crime that needs solving, then run a con on the criminals to prove their guilt and recover stolen property. In this case, the crooks are the wife of a rich man and a lawyer who faked a kidnapping and pocketed the ransom. McCoy runs a complex con that tricks them into revealing that they do indeed have the ransom money. McCoy then collects a reward.
The book is full of clever prose and a lot of humor. I never saw McCoy, which ran for just five episodes as part of the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie cycle in 1975/76. Reading this book, I can easily picture Curtis in the title role.
His usual method of dealing with debt is to find a crime that needs solving, then run a con on the criminals to prove their guilt and recover stolen property. In this case, the crooks are the wife of a rich man and a lawyer who faked a kidnapping and pocketed the ransom. McCoy runs a complex con that tricks them into revealing that they do indeed have the ransom money. McCoy then collects a reward.
The book is full of clever prose and a lot of humor. I never saw McCoy, which ran for just five episodes as part of the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie cycle in 1975/76. Reading this book, I can easily picture Curtis in the title role.
May 21, 2025
Great novelization of the Tony Curtis series. If the show was this good, you wonder why it didn't last...
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