Review: Leastways...O.K.'s got those green trimammaried, quadrobrachic, VA blues, baby.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 23, 2013
Let me begin by giving credit where credit's due to British suspense/thriller novelist Stephen Leather for leading me to this very humorous short story by Welshman Andrew Peters. I was checking out Leather's blog site this morning and saw THE VENUSIAN VAMP (THE BLUES DETECTIVE) mentioned there and being a Leather fan I thought, "Hmmm What's this?" Well, I checked it out here on amazon and found out that this fun short story was available for download to my Kindle for 0.99 cents! A deal I couldn't pass up. I'm glad I didn't, as this was a very amusing little tale about Otis King, the Blues Detective), and his being hired by Ursula, a gorgeous, green babe from Venus to, ummm, do some unusual detecting for her."I have, of course, no idea of Venusian standards of beauty, but to Welsh eyes, this chick is a looker. Green she certainly is, though not that much different to the shade I sometimes turn after a few glasses of Uncle Twm's Rhondda Rum. More of a sheen than a color." (Otis devouring Ursula with his bleary eyes as she enters his office.)I was so interested in the further adventures of this blues guitar playing PI, I downloaded the original selection of 10 Otis King short stories by Peters. Sci-fi isn't a genre that I particularly like to read, but I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed this particular sci-fi story. Highly recommended - 5 Stars