Doctor Lovebeads (Literary
Mystery)
By Gary Reilly
ISBN #978-0984786053
Running Meter Press
Price $16.95
296 Pages
Rating 5-Stars
“Murph Joins The Hippies”
Brendon Murphy, a Rocky
Mountain cab driver in Denver tends to get involved too often with his
passengers’ personal lives. While parked in front of a hotel waiting for fares,
he spots three kids dressed like hippies, panhandling. Fearing the doorman of
the hotel will call the police he offers the kids a free ride to a safer
location. The next day he spots the same kids panhandling at a bus stop in
town, and pulls up to ask them what they are doing. A bus stop isn’t a good
place to panhandle either. Learning that two of the girls have free tickets to
a concert miles away, and knowing they don’t have the money to get there – or
the time, as it’s only a few hours till the concert starts, he feels sorry for
them and offers to take them there in his cab – free.
Everything is fine until he
learns the girls are missing, and the police are investigating the case. Murph
discovers that the girls are staying at a commune with more hippies, and
decides it’s his fault. Yep, he gets involved again. But this time he dresses
like a hippy and enters the commune, hoping to talk the girls into coming back
to their families. It begets more problems than he can imagine.
Murph’s latest problems
appear set to fail from the start, as the girls are there of their own will,
and the members of the commune are willing to protect them from outside
interference. Maybe this time the Asphalt Warrior has bitten off more than he
can chew.
As always, the adventures
of the Asphalt Warrior are an entertaining and fun read. Somehow, you just know
the cab driver will find a way – if he can live through the experience. I was
also amused as Murph thought back to reading Doc Savage and wanting to grow up
to be like Doc. The Doc Savage series must have influenced a lot of young men
and women growing up. I knew several who became doctors because of Savage. It is
little wonder the Asphalt Warrior has become highly recommended reading.
Tom Johnson
Detective Mystery Stories
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