- Hardcover: 150 pages
- Publisher: Walker & Co (September 1993)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0802732372
- ISBN-13: 978-0802732378
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.2 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
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From Publishers Weekly
Still painting signs in Depression-era South Dakota, Carl Wilcox, introduced in The Man Who Was Taller Than God , finds himself in Podunkville where eggs are 11? a dozen and rooms are let at 50? a day. He rents one of the latter from the Widow Bower, but he isn't there one night before local "brute and bully" Basil Ecke turns up murdered next to Wilcox's Model T and the painter becomes the prime suspect. Ecke owned the local pharmacy and was a silent partner in a hotel in nearby Aquaville where he cavorted with a series of married women. Wilcox, a "boozing cowboy con" who sometimes substitutes as a cop, investigates "the wife beatings, the woman chasing, the tales of incest and possible murder" that suggest motives for the killing. Sharp dialogue and brisk characterization of familiar inhabitants of a small town where women are hard and men are weak add some substance to the thin plot. The murder weapon, a common domestic item, turns out to be more interesting than the unsurprising revelation of who wielded it.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Adams pares down his first-person narrative to the bare essentials necessary for verbal clue-gathering. Returning protagonist Carl Wilcox, an itinerant sign painter and ex-con ( The Man Who Was Taller Than God , Walker, 1992), passes through Podunkville, South Dakota just in time for police to accuse him of murdering a miserly wealthy businessman. Carl, no slugabed, offers his help to the police. His straight-to-the-point interrogations leave little room for action or description, but the dialog rings true, and the plot looks good. A tidy, bantam-weight contender.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Not one of his better ones., Jan 21 2006
By Peter LaPrade - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Perfectly Proper Murder: A Carl Wilcox Mystery (Hardcover)
In this installment of the Wilcox series, Carl goes to Podunkville, and argues with a pharmacy owner who turns up dead the next day. Carl starts looking into the murder, and finds that the dead man's family has secrets they don't want revealed, and he does find a few motives for murder, but winds up catching the killer and making them confess. Motive wasn't anything new, and plot was noticablely thin.
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