The Ferguson Murder

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