Review: Complex plot, simplistic style, yay Dodgers!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 4, 2013
The year is 1955. Private Investigator Henry Wood, hired by a wife concerned that her husband is cheating on her, discovers that the man is instead very unhappy with his job. Then his boss commits suicide and the boss' secretary hires Henry in the belief he was murdered. The investigations are combined and the plot takes off, mixing industrial espionage, cold war animosities, the CIA, and a mysterious closet into a page-turning thriller with visits to Ebbets Field and Brooklyn Dodger games thrown in for good measure.The tale had a pleasant humorous side (see Buttons, the cat) as well as a few surprises.Two caveats: the writing style is amateurish and simplistic although there are no problems with grammar or spelling (the nemesis of many ebooks), and the basement closet was superfluous to this story and should have been revamped or left out.