The Ferguson Murder (Murder
Mystery)
By Wayne Greenough
Devine Destinies
ASIN B009199H52
Price $4.99 (Kindle)
Rating 5-Stars
Someone has killed the biggest collector in town, and
now other collectors are losing their collections and dying violently. Thanet
Blake is an old fashioned private detective in the mold of Sam Spade and Philip
Marlow. When a beautiful woman walks into his small office he thinks it’s
someone’s joke, until she tells him she’s the daughter of the murdered
collector and wants him to find the killer.
This was an interesting yarn with a lot of throwbacks
to the old private eye novels of the 1940s, but in a contemporary setting.
Collectors of rare comic books, old music, action figures, and serials and
B-Westerns, are being murdered and their collections stolen. The author has fun
describing the many different collections, and the odd characters that collect
them. One individual collects everything to do with Flash Gordon, and calls
himself King Voltan, and even dresses and talks the part. Another has become a
living B-Western bad guy, and lives the part. An accident destroyed his face,
so he had a plastic surgeon rebuild his features as a B-Western star. Thankfully, no pulp collector named Tom
Johnson was killed. I did figure out who the killer was early on, but there
were still a few mysteries I had not figured out.
For fans of old private eye yarns, and even readers of
modern mysteries, I think you will find this short novel a lot of fun. Highly
recommended.
Tom Johnson
Detective Mystery Stories
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