Too Many Crooks

One of the best Shell Scott books I've read. This rates a 4.5 on the crime book scale. The only thing that makes this less than a perfect crime novel—and maybe this true of all the Shell Scott novels—is the lack of a truly evil femme fatale. There's one in this book, but for all her evil she comes a......more

Ο σκληροτραχηλος Σελ Σκοτ λαμβάνει μια κάρτα από έναν παλιό φίλο που ζητάει τη βοήθεια του. Μια μυστηριωδης εταιρεία προσπαθεί να αποκτήσει οικόπεδα-φιλέτα σε μια παραλιακη πόλη των ΗΠΑ, χρησιμοποιώντας όχι πάντα νόμιμες μεθόδους. Ο Σκοτ γίνεται στόχος αμέσως μετά την εμφάνιση του και από διώκτης με......more

This is a terrific book of corruption and deception woven into a very tight novel. Hero Shell Scott starts off to help a friends and the story builds and builds and builds to a very exciting and nail biting ending that seems to have turned against Scott. There is a grand slam twist that will not be......more

The last book of the year 2022 is a 70 yo paperback PI gumshoe yarn. What a hoot reading the old dialogue around a slam bang PI versus cop who-don-it. Our hero drives a Cadillac convertible with standard shift. He has a way with women and guns. Someone is trying to buy all the shore front property i......more