- Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Dell (Nov 9 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 044022618X
- ISBN-13: 978-0440226185
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.9 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 45 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,512,751 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
DePoy's fourth installment in the Flap Tucker mystery series (after Easy As One, Two, Three) finds the easy-going Atlanta PI embroiled in a series of bizarre lamppost hangings. Flap discovers the first of the murders when a disoriented, homeless acquaintance leads him to the body of a young woman. The woman's uncle asks Flap to investigate her death and he accepts, despite his heavy workload: he is already committed to solving the murder of a friend, collaborating with a cagey police detective who seems more intent on implicating Flap and stealing his girlfriend than solving the case. Flap is pulled further into the investigation when he discovers a link between recently stolen disease samples from the Centers for Disease Control and the cryptic notes found pinned to the victims' bodies. DePoy skillfully lays out the surprisingly complex story line, creating intrigue with Flap's approach to sleuthing (a special blend of meditative Zen skills) and his often humorous underworld characters. (Nov.)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
Praise for Phillip DePoy and the Flap Tucker mystery series...
"This series is clearly one of the most entertaining regional mysteries on the market today."
--Harriet Klausner, BookBrowser
"Sit back and spend some smooth, sly Southern time with one of the coolest P.I.'s ever to open a bottle of Château Cantenac-Brown."
--Charles Mathes, author of The Girl at the End of the Line
"The Flap Tucker mysteries are real jewels. Phillip DePoy has style!"
--Debbie Macomber, bestselling author of Moon Over Water
Easy as One, Two, Three:
"There seems to be a feel to Phillip DePoy's Southern mysteries rarely seen in other novelists' works. The Flap Tucker novels are getting better and better."
--Harriet Klausner, Book Browser
Too Easy:
"Now this is a voice! Any time Phillip DePoy wants to bring back Flap Tucker, I'm ready."
--S. J. Rozan, Shamus Award-winning author of Concourse
Easy:
"A promising debut in a series that accomplishes the tricky task of being satisfyingly different. The first person voice of Flap is a good storyteller, funny and witty."
--Mystery News
"Easy is populated with wildly appealing characters and an unusually engaging detective."
--The Independent Reader
"This series is clearly one of the most entertaining regional mysteries on the market today."
--Harriet Klausner, BookBrowser
"Sit back and spend some smooth, sly Southern time with one of the coolest P.I.'s ever to open a bottle of Château Cantenac-Brown."
--Charles Mathes, author of The Girl at the End of the Line
"The Flap Tucker mysteries are real jewels. Phillip DePoy has style!"
--Debbie Macomber, bestselling author of Moon Over Water
Easy as One, Two, Three:
"There seems to be a feel to Phillip DePoy's Southern mysteries rarely seen in other novelists' works. The Flap Tucker novels are getting better and better."
--Harriet Klausner, Book Browser
Too Easy:
"Now this is a voice! Any time Phillip DePoy wants to bring back Flap Tucker, I'm ready."
--S. J. Rozan, Shamus Award-winning author of Concourse
Easy:
"A promising debut in a series that accomplishes the tricky task of being satisfyingly different. The first person voice of Flap is a good storyteller, funny and witty."
--Mystery News
"Easy is populated with wildly appealing characters and an unusually engaging detective."
--The Independent Reader
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Zen Detective just gets better and better,
This review is from: Dancing Made Easy: A Flap Tucker Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)
This is the 4th in the Flap Tucker Zen detective series and it's a great one. I've really enjoyed these novels - the characters are unusual, likeable, they drink wine and make chahmin' double entendres while solving murders...kinda like a drawlin' Thin Man. I understand the 5th in the series comes out in late Fall. It is right up there with Lawrence Block as my next have-to purchase. These are a real find.
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Zen detective strikes again,
By A Customer
This review is from: Dancing Made Easy: A Flap Tucker Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)
He claims to be easy going and laid back. He swears that he is content with relaxing during the day and sleeping during the night. However, in truth Atlanta private detective Flap Tucker spends all of his time on his cases, leaving him with no leisure time. He is not a normal sleuth as most people who know him call him a psychic. He begs to differ, insisting that he just meditates to clear his mind of everything but what he seeks.This time Flap is involved in a strange case even by his weird standard. A young hooker is killed and left hanging on a pole by an apron, not a rope. Pinned to the body is a note saying: The Tarantella. The next victim is an artist who is found in the identical manner with a note stating The Tango. A robbery occurred quite a while ago in which three toxins were stolen. The first two were used to murder the victims. Flap uses his gift to seek the link between the deaths and the CDC before the third deadly poison is used. Although the story line is not linear (it takes several unexpected and unusual detours), DANCING MADE EASY is one of Phillip DePoy's best works. There is a surreal feel to the plot that makes everything seem just out of focus, including people who are not what they seem to be. The who-done-it employs a gothic overlay that imbues a sense of foreboding into the whole story line, sending chills up and down the reader's spine. Mr. DePoy is putting Atlanta on the fictional detective map due to his delightful characters and the troubles they create for themselves. Harriet Klausner
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Three Dances -- Three Bodies,
By Nash Black "Troubadour" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Dancing Made Easy: A Flap Tucker Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)
Phillip DePoy's DANCING MADE EASY is delightful. Flap Tucker's psychic powers are short circuited and he's confused by the messages his brain is telling him to follow.Four AM and Flap is rousted from bed by an aging drunk to view a body swinging from a lamp post by apron strings. Clues abound, but they are dead ends. A neighbor of Dally Oglethorpe is the second victim to be discovered in the same bizarre fashion. Will there be a third as the killer promises? You will be guessing along with Flap as you turn the pages of this well written novel that is full of twists and allusions. Nash Black, author of SINS OF THE FATHERS
5.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome & Strange in one:),
By Michele A. Arnold "Book Lover" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Dancing Made Easy: A Flap Tucker Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)
This book was so weird, but as one said very complex and had me on the edge of my seat:) I'm happy now that i've read all the books, i'm reading Dead Easy over again in some spots cause i had started with Easy & Dead Easy not knowing the other 3 were in the middle but did wonder about stuff in Dead Easy, some has been like "O i get it now" when something was referred to another book:) But this book was strangeeee & fun in one:) I wish we can have some more of Flap but me thinks Dead Easy is the last:) Atleast this book explained to me how Burnish, and Flap met & why the angst:) Even tho the ending was like it was for Dally/Flap Dead Easy explained ALOT about why nothing ever really happened with them:) Get the whole series if you want some good stuff to read:) *Thumbs WAY UP*:D
5.0 out of 5 stars
Zen Detective just gets better and better,
By Marki Shalloe - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Dancing Made Easy: A Flap Tucker Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)
This is the 4th in the Flap Tucker Zen detective series and it's a great one. I've really enjoyed these novels - the characters are unusual, likeable, they drink wine and make chahmin' double entendres while solving murders...kinda like a drawlin' Thin Man. I understand the 5th in the series comes out in late Fall. It is right up there with Lawrence Block as my next have-to purchase. These are a real find.
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