- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing, Inc. (Nov 23 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 189206524X
- ISBN-13: 978-1892065247
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.7 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 476 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,035,055 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Set in 2025 Atlanta, this sequel to Hartman's first novel, The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse (2001), features gay detective Drew Parke, his Wiccan partner Jennifer Grey and a large supporting cast of strange people. Like its predecessor, it employs the same irresistible zaniness and wit, multiple viewpoints, high sexual content (both gay and straight) and cheerfully chaotic narrative technique. Jennifer is hired by a young deaf-mute named Skye, who wants to find out whether her boyfriend, Charles Rockland (an actor, and one of five cloned hunks), is cheating on her. Meanwhile, Drew's sidekick and sometime lover, Daniel, is in trouble with the law. In both cases, it turns out that there's extremely nasty blackmail behind the troublemaking what might be called a family feud in real life. Add to this a band of Cherokees trying to get back Georgia, while lurking in the background are dueling televangelists, each with his crop of the ambitious or the thuggish (you expected the devout?), and it's obvious that the author has produced another engagingly weird novel of the near future, satirizing everything he can get his word processor on and doing most of it extremely well. In the absence of conventional narrative, readers can instead enjoy jumping from good part to good part. (Nov.)nominated for a Lambda Award in both the mystery and SF/fantasy categories.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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2024 was a rough year for Drew Parker. His car broke down, his rent went up, and his partner was kidnapped by a revenge-crazed performance artist with a grant from the NEA. Worse, one of his clients had been tossed off a sky scraper-after being stripped naked, smeared in human fat, and painted with occult symbols. Drew himself had broken into the headquarters of the Christian Militia on a wild goose chase, and nearly gotten his brain fried trying to get back out. And then there was the assassination attempt on that cross dressing Cherokee Shaman, which Drew might not have stopped if he'd known how much trouble it was going to get him into. And that's not even counting the talking gorilla in the fedora. So far, 2025 isn't shaping up to be much better. What had started as a simple case involving identical quintuplet actors cloned from the frozen corpse of a dead movie star was suddenly getting complicated. The pushy stage mom was to be expected, but the secret agents from the Cherokee nation came as a bit of a surprise, as did the lethal martial artist in the clown mask who had broken into his office. Nor had Drew planned on finding himself in the middle of a political death match between competing tele-ministeries. Besides, Drew had a personal score to settle, a little matter involving a privatized version of the KGB, a ring of male prostitutes, and a vampire sex cult. Oh well, at least his Wiccan partner, Jen, is back to help him out. If he can just get her to cut back on the practical jokes and the dating advice.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Not quite as good as the first...,
By A Customer
This review is from: Gumshoe Gorilla (Paperback)
While I enjoyed Gumshoe Gorilla, it didn't have quite the impact of the first novel. I guess sequels are often like that. The idea of telling the story from different perspectives have a greater sense of uniqueness the first time round. Mind you, I think this book was better for fleshing out its characters, so I enjoyed all the same. I would love to read more by this author.
4.0 out of 5 stars
great story terrible printing,
By A Customer
This review is from: Gumshoe Gorilla (Paperback)
I think this was a great story. It was fun and engaging. It didn't seem to be as serious as the previous book, but I still loved all the characters that return for this book. I find any complaints about the "gayness" a bit over done. I suppose those people would rather there was nothing gay at all. The book never comes near a pornographic level as atleast one reviewer suggests.All and all a great deal of fun. That said, I wish he would choose a new publisher as the place delivers crap du jour once again. Typos that stop the flow of the reading. I find myself having to stop and reread sentences just to figure out what the writer actually meant. Font sizes change from page to page causing me to wonder if there is something signifigant being said but alas no, it's just a very poor printing of a really fun book.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Paging an editor...any editor,
By Ivy (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gumshoe Gorilla (Paperback)
Keith Hartman's next novel should feature a really bad copy editor who is horribly killed because he simply couldn't recognize an error, even to save his skin. It would be partial revenge for the work - or lack of work - done on Gumshoe Gorilla. Almost every page contains an error, and almost every error in the grammar book is made more than once. Capitalization, font, spelling, and every element of punctuation known to the English language (especially apostrophes) - each and every one gets horribly mangled in this novel. So, if you can read English reasonably well, don't expect to be able to read this book without cringing and moaning in pain.Despite that, though, it's a fairly good book - it'd be worth four stars without the editing problem. The characters are still fun, the writing is still funny (even if it would make Strunk and White foam at the mouth), and Hartman still has a deft hand with social satire. Unfortunately, the plot isn't quite as intelligent as The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse's was - it's too easy to put the pieces together. Readers who are looking for a puzzle to solve will be finished well before the book is over. But readers looking for a light, enjoyable book with lots of humor will really like Gumshoe Gorilla. They'd just better bring their red pens with them.
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