The Way of All Fish
A Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Abandoned book. ...More publishing and murder from Martha GrimesBookPage Review by Megan FishmannMartha Grimesan...
In Grimes’s new sendup of a world she knows very well, Candy and Karl, hitmen with a difference— they have scruples—once again venture into the murky Manhattan publishing scene. This time they come to the aid of a writer who is being sued by her unscrupulous literary agent, L. Bass Hess, a man determined to get a 15 percent commission for a book he didn’t sell.The contract killers join forces with publishing mogul Bobby Mackenzie and megabestselling writer Paul Giverney to rid the mean streets of Hess, not by shooting him, but by driving him crazy. They are helped by other characters from Foul Matter and a crew of new colorful personalities, including an out-of-work Vegas magician, an alligator wrangler, a glamorous Malaysian con lady, and Hess’s aunt in Everglades City, who has undergone a wildly successful sex change.
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- Pages: 352 pages
- ISBN: 9781476723952 / 1476723958
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...More publishing and murder from Martha GrimesBookPage Review by Megan FishmannMartha Grimesan official Grand Master crime writerhas returned. After the author was let go from her longtime publisher, Knopf, she responded with a best-selling novel, Foul Matter (2003), that tackled (and tore apart) the publishing industry. Now in a... Martha Grimes is a superb mystery writer, official Grand Master, known for a number of series (the proper British Richard Jury/Melrose Plant, the teenage amnesiac Andi Oliver who battles animal abuse, and the literary mysteries of 12 year old sleuth Emma Graham). I highly recommend her poetry and short stories/novellas.In 2003 after... I finally crashed on through Martha Grimes' latest attempt to leave the British "Richard Jury" series behind. She left it behind, along with all of her best gifts in character, setting, perspective. In trying to join the leagues of satirists somewhere between Janet Evanovich and Tim Dorsey, she's spun off into a world of supposed humor...
