![]() ![]() You want another pop/rock reference? Claire displays a “What is it? I’ll take it” view of drugs similar to Dr. ![]() … and those handle-stealing vandals just aren’t any help. ![]() Something may be happening here, but you won’t know what it is… Imagine the squeaky clean Nancy Drew all grown up and adult and totally alive, complete with raging hormones and all sorts of nasty habits, turned professional investigator - and relying on a lot more than good girl pluck, kiddie pulp coincidence, a wealthy daddy and her Wonder Bread chums to crack a case.Ĭlaire does occasionally rely on assistance from her two best friends from childhood, Tracy and Kelly, but she’s just as likely to use dreams, omens, her troubled past, I-Ching readings, assorted substances (controlled and otherwise) and the teachings of a legendary book, Detecion, written by enigmatic French detective/philosopher, Jacques Silete, to get the job done.Īnd it’s that anything-and-everything approach, the woozy literary equivalent of a mid-sixties-era Bob Dylan song, that makes this book such a hoot. Twentyish private eye CLAIRE DeWITT is, well, different. Anyone expecting author Sara Gunn to simply milk the noir vein she tapped so well in her classic Dope has another think coming. We’re not in Chandlertown anymore.īut we certainly passed through there on our way here. ![]()
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