Murder at the Symphony
Category: Detective
The Ol’ Rabies Trick
Happy World Rabies Day!
Unforgotten
Happy National Day of Forgiveness!
The Theater Ghost
Happy National Actors Day!
The Matchmaker
Happy Matchmaker Day!
Gunshot of Death
It turned out that Lovie Howell fired the successful shot from the stairway. Thurston recovered and didn’t press charges because it would have invalidated his pre-nup.
Atomic Knockers
Happy National Breastfeeding Month!
The Last Brunch
Dinosaurs of the Bible
Happy Dinosaurs Day!
Hack wrote this during his brief flirtation with Evangelical Christianity. He later disowned the book even though it was a huge seller in the Bible Belt. It is still required reading in many elementary schools in Arkansas and Kentucky.
And yes, George Harrison’s face was used as the model for Jesus. Nobody noticed at the time.
Erectile Dysfunction of The Thin Man
Happy heavenly birthday to William Powell.
This book is a sequel to The Thin Man’s Wife but since Nick Charles was murdered at the end of that novel, Hack began this one with the classic writers cop-out that the previous story was all a dream. This is one of Hack’s most carefully researched novels since he used his own extensive personal experience with alcohol-related impotence in writing it. The result is a book that is honestly pretty uncomfortable to read, although the many anal sex scenes between Detective Jonny and Nora Charles are diverting.