Review: An Every Man Detective... Good Read.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 28, 2011
This was a good mystery, detective novel. The detective... Z... is an average, older man... self-described as not being too pretty with a bad leg. He lives alone but has a girl friend who is important to him. He is a private investigator and also installs security systems. While having his own seamy moral code which allows him to break many rules... Z 's not a bad man.A painting is stolen. A college janitor is thought to commit suicide. A woman dies locked out of her house. A college professor of psychology wants the janitor's death looked into because he doesn't feel the janitor would have committed suicide. Z loved the painting and is hired by the college professor to investigate the janitor's death. He worked for the woman putting in a security system. So Z is looking into 2 deaths and the theft of the painting.Z seems to have snatches of brilliance mixed with every day plodding and a dogged stick-to-it attitude. This is a good read and a great character. Not the average PI at all.I would have given this book 5 stars but near the beginning of the appearance of the college professor... there needed to be some serious editing or proofreading. The time is 2:30 p.m.  Then, it is 1:55 p.m. Then it is 3:00 p.m.There is no true time traveling intended in this book. One star off for a jarring error that interrupted my reading.Otherwise... this is a good book.