Peeper

I've read a lot of Estleman, and I wish he had written a lot more like this one. There were many laugh-out-loud scenes. Ralph is about the most uncouth and drunken P.I. one would ever care to meet, but even he could never have imagined the streak of bad luck he ran into this time. "I made the mistake......more

I was raised on noir and hard boiled detective stories and Loren D Estleman is one of the few authors still writing this stuff. Peeper or in this case Spanarn since I read the Swedish translation is just that. It is fast paced and hilarious and dark. I laughed out loud at some of the antics and had......more

Plenty of action here, but I found it hard to like the protagonist enough to really care what happened to him.......more

Estleman is one of the best genre writers around and prolific with it but this isn’t one of his best efforts. A slob of a PI stumbles into an into an incoherent plot involving the Church and the Justice Department. Poteet doesn’t wear well as a character and it’s all too over the top - tries much to......more

Alter Ego Ralph Poteet is Amos Walker’s alter ego, who Amos would be if he downticked from scotch to vodka to Mad Dog; if he lost his business and subsisted by grifting; if he lost his filter and told the cops what he really thinks, as well as just about everyone else. Just by unlucky proximity, he g......more